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Pregnancy and disability: RCN guide for midwives and nurses
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Midwives and nurses have welcomed the publication which will help them to provide high quality, client-led care for disabled women during pregnancy, birth and beyond. The author, herself a disabled mother, writes with the authority of long experience gained in pioneering and running the first specialist midwifery service for disabled women at a large women’s hospital. With her collaborators she gives a thorough description of how others can deliver the kind of service that meets the needs of disabled women by seeing the woman first and her impairment second. The complex issues of what it means to be disabled, with relevant statistics, are discussed in full. The legal background to disability discrimination is well covered, highlighting the new Disability Equality Duty - all public sector pregnancy supplement organisations including the NHS are now positively required to promote equality for disabled people. Case studies of the four broad categories of disability – physical, sensory, learning and long-term mental illness – illustrate vividly the issues for health care workers. These will assist midwives and nurses to consider and plan in advance with disabled clients how their particular needs can be accommodated, working with other agencies and professionals where appropriate.
Identifying parents with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MCKENZIE Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 110(22), 2014, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
People with learning disabilities are likely to need additional support when accessing health care and, for those who are parents, receiving support at an early stage may help them to keep their child. Health professionals who have contact with expectant mothers early on in their pregnancies are well placed to identify support needs. Providing timely support may be a challenge, particularly if the mother has not been known to learning disability services.This articles discusses whether screening tools may offer nurses a quick easy way of identifying people with learning disabilities. (Publisher abstract)
Disability in pregnancy and childbirth
- Editors:
- MCKAY-MOFFAT Stella, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Churchill Livingstone
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 219p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. No other book advises midwives on the special needs of mothers with disabilities. Although an increasing number of women with disabilities are having children, the needs of this minority group are not always being effectively met. Disability in Pregnancy and Childbirth provides essential practical information to healthcare professionals working with this group. Contents include: social construction of disability and motherhood; women's health and disability; maternity services and women's experiences; the role of the midwife in maternity service provision; women with intellectual disabilities; midwives skills, knowledge and attitudes; sensory impairment; the interaction between specific conditions and the childbirth continuum.