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Specialist practitioner within community learning disability and the primary health care team
- Authors:
- BOLLARD M., JUKES M.J.D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(1), March 1999, pp.11-19.
Argues that specialist nurses within the community have not been allowed to develop their professional and philosophical base for practice, and instead have been manipulated by economics, policy formulation and through medical and managerial domination. Two conceptual models are proposed; a segregative model and an integrative model, which offer the specialist community learning disability nurse a way in which the practitioner can work more effectively within the primary health care arena.