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Triumphant return in a new role
- Author:
- CARLISLE Daloni
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 5.11.97, 1997, pp.77-80.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses how the role of the learning disabilities nurse has changed over the past ten years.
Recognising the smiles that cry for help
- Authors:
- DOBSON Susan, DODSWORTH Susan, MILLER Maureen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 26.3.97, 1997, pp.60-62.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes a small project set up by nurses and a speech and language therapist in a day unit for people with learning difficulties. The project looked at communication between clients and their visitors.
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.
Community staff causal attributions about challenging behaviours in people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- HASTINGS Richard P., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(3), 1997, pp.238-249.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article focuses on a study of community staff attributions as compared with those of inexperienced healthcare workers such as students nurses. Outlines the implications of research in this area for staff training and behavioural intervention and discusses suggestions for future research.
Dimensions of learning disability
- Editors:
- GATES Bob, PEACOCK Colin
- Publisher:
- Bailliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 394p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Focuses on the health aspects of services for people with learning difficulties, and on the role nurses have to play within this. Contains sections on: the nature of learning disability; health and learning disability; educational dimensions; biological dimensions; psychosocial dimensions; cultural and spiritual aspects; political and economic dimensions; national and international issues; and contemporary and new horizons in learning disability research.