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Opportunities for change: a new direction for nursing people with learning disabilities; a discussion paper
- Author:
- SINES David
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 26p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Discussion document on the ways in which nursing skills could be further developed and delivered to people with learning difficulties following the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
Dignity in health care for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- HARDY Steve
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 21p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance aims to improve dignity in health care for people with learning disabilities. It is designed primarily to support the nursing workforce but may also be useful for other health care and social care staff. The publication focuses on the experiences of people with learning disabilities, areas for improvement in relation to dignity, practical ideas on what nurses can do to improve dignity and sources of further information and support. It also includes information relating to the particular health needs that people with learning disabilities may have, and provides guidance on working in collaboration with other service providers. The development of the guide was contributed to by a small proactive group of individuals with learning disabilities who use health care services in South East London. This group shared their thoughts, feelings and experiences at 3 focus group meetings. During these events, group members were encouraged and supported to discuss their thoughts in relation to: what dignity means; their experiences of health services; and what nurses could do to make dignity better.
Promoting health supporting inclusion: healthy lives, part of the community; how nurses and midwives can support children and adults with learning disabilities and their families
- Authors:
- NHS SCOTLAND, SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- NHS Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 5p.
The Scottish Government has consulted users people about how to make the health of people with learning disabilities better. The new report about the work of nurses and midwives, “Promoting Health, Supporting Inclusion” outlines what all nurses and midwives can do to help people with learning disabilities stay healthy and happy. Improving the health of people with learning disabilities will help them live the kind of life they want in the community. The Government has already said that people with learning disabilities should be able to take an active part in their communities.
Learning disability nursing : user and carer perceptions
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(2), June 2003, pp.119-135.
- Publisher:
- Sage
It is frequently asserted that the views of patients or service users should inform the structure and delivery of health and social care services. In the UK, patient participation, the expertise of service users and user involvement in the design and outcomes of research have been repeatedly emphasized as producing services which are more responsive, better coordinated and less stigmatizing. The NHS has highlighted the importance of involving service users in education and training. This article reports on user and carer views about learning disability nursing. Data were collected as part of a larger project considering the changing roles and education of learning disability nurses in England.The article concludes with a series of challenges for future educational and service development.
Learning from the past : emotional labour and learning disability nursing
- Authors:
- MITCHELL Duncan, SMITH Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(2), June 2003, pp.109-117.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article explores learning disability nursing by examining evidence for emotional labour from the past. As such it offers insights into both methodological and political issues connected to emotional labour in nursing and explores issues within learning disability nursing. In particular it addresses the development of learning disability nursing and the way in which its role within institutions was defined in terms of emotional labour. Specific material from textbooks, minutes of curricular development meetings and GNC inspectors' reports are examined. It is suggested that emotional labour provides a shared experience between different branches of nursing as well as different periods of time. Such shared experience is particularly helpful to learning disability nurses in their position on the margins of the nursing profession. It is further suggested that emotional labour as a concept could be used to help develop understanding of work with people with learning disabilities.
Meeting the health care needs of people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- THORNTON Cynthia
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 14.5.97, 1997, pp.52-54.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article looks at the findings of a study on how primary health care teams saw the health care needs of people with learning disabilities and how those needs were being met. Among the issues discussed is the significance of relevant education in an interdisciplinary setting and the potential shift of some specialist community learning disability nurses to the primary health care team.