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Learning disabilities in later life
- Author:
- NUMAS Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 11.11.98, 1998, pp.56-57.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses how nurses can help ensure the right care for people with learning disabilities in old age.
Role of the registered nurse learning disability within community support teams for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MANSELL I., HARRIS P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 2(4), December 1998, pp.190-194.
The role of the Registered Nurse Mental Handicap (RNLD) within multidisciplinary community support teams was explored within a single county in South Wales. A survey of six community support teams included all members with a professional background. Each professional was issued with a pre-tested questionnaire that examined their perceptions of their own role and the role of the RNLD. The results suggested that the RNLDS were seen to contribute five key roles: client based interventions; co-ordination and planning of care; training; care management and health promotion. The roles and skills of the RNLD and implications of referral and record keeping methods were discussed.
Learning disability: dimensions of professional empowerment
- Author:
- GALE J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 2(2), June 1998, pp.112-115.
Discusses professional empowerment within the context of learning disability nursing practice. Offers a conceptual framework of professional empowerment to enhance the understanding of learning disability nursing. This framework provides learning disability nursing with a world view of practice that is dynamic and challenges nurses to transform it further.
Sex and disability
- Author:
- GRAHAM Nancy
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 22.7.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how family planning nurses can effectively meet the contraceptive needs of people with disabilities.
Guidelines for mental health and learning disabilities nursing: a guide to working with vulnerable clients
- Authors:
- UNITED KINGDOM CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR NURSING, MIDWIFERY AND HEALTH VISITING
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Booklet produced as a guide to providing user centred, sensitive services. Aimed at nurses working with patients with mental health problems or learning difficulties.
How nurses cope with ongoing grief in clinical work: an exploratory study
- Author:
- McINTOSH P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 2(3), September 1998, pp.124-130.
To date little exploration has been undertaken as to how nurses involved in clinical family work cope with the experience of chronic grief, expressed by families of people with learning disabilities. This paper reports on a purposive sample of three subjects who viewed a video vignette portraying the experience of chronic grief; these subjects were learning disability nurses working in a community setting. Discusses the findings.
The legal context of practice 1: consent to treatment
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 1(5), January 1998, pp.171-174.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This first unit in the journal's bi-monthly 'Directions' professional development and continuing education series explores aspects of the law relating to mental health and learning disability nursing practice. This unit looks specifically at the laws governing consent to treatment.
Interdisciplinary training for staff working with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities
- Author:
- LACEY Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 12(1), 1998, pp.43-52.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Traditionally, teachers, therapists, nurses and social workers have separate training which fits them each for specific and defined roles in their work with people with learning disabilities. In reality, these roles, at least, are complementary and in many cases overlap considerably. Discusses the importance of training members of multidisciplinary teams together and in demonstrating how this was achieved in one university department. Reports on a project set up in aimed at planning, implementing and evaluating and interdisciplinary course for staff who work with people profound and multiple learning disabilities.