Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(7), March 2000, pp.229-232.
Publisher:
Pavilion
People with learning disabilities have traditionally been the passive subjects of other people's research. This article describes how participatory research provides a model for nurses to work with people with learning disabilities as equal partners in the research enterprise, and issues of which they must be aware if they are not to perpetuate disabling relationships with their co-researchers.
People with learning disabilities have traditionally been the passive subjects of other people's research. This article describes how participatory research provides a model for nurses to work with people with learning disabilities as equal partners in the research enterprise, and issues of which they must be aware if they are not to perpetuate disabling relationships with their co-researchers.
Subject terms:
joint working, learning disabilities, nurses, participatory research, research methods, user participation;
Joint training of nurses and social workers caring for mentally handicapped people has lagged behind in Northern Ireland. Reports on an initiative in the Western Board area.
Joint training of nurses and social workers caring for mentally handicapped people has lagged behind in Northern Ireland. Reports on an initiative in the Western Board area.
Subject terms:
joint working, learning disabilities, nurses, multidisciplinary training, social workers, training;
Care and Health Magazine, 8.10.03, 2003, pp.30-31.
Publisher:
Care and Health
Reports on an innovative project in north Nottinghamshire, where, in 2001 they appointed the UK's first consultant nurse for vulnerable children. The role combines the responsibility for health needs of children with a lead role in ensuring that their social care needs are being met.
Reports on an innovative project in north Nottinghamshire, where, in 2001 they appointed the UK's first consultant nurse for vulnerable children. The role combines the responsibility for health needs of children with a lead role in ensuring that their social care needs are being met.
Subject terms:
conduct disorders, children, health needs, nurses, joint working, learning disabilities, looked after children, needs, primary care trusts, social services, vulnerable children, minimum wage;
Reports on integrated mental health services provided by the Somerset Partnership NHS & Social Care Trust, and the benefits which have resulted for both service users and staff.
Reports on integrated mental health services provided by the Somerset Partnership NHS & Social Care Trust, and the benefits which have resulted for both service users and staff.
Subject terms:
integrated services, joint working, learning disabilities, mental health services, nurses, multidisciplinary services, service users, social care provision, social workers, teams, user participation, user views;
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(12), August 1999, pp.412-415.
Publisher:
Pavilion
Salford University's launch of their new joint nursing/social work training programme for learning disabilities practitioners has thrown starkly into relief the barriers and boundaries that impede joint working. This article describes the initial findings of a study canvassing the views of first intake of students, including roles, responsibilities and professional perceptions.
Salford University's launch of their new joint nursing/social work training programme for learning disabilities practitioners has thrown starkly into relief the barriers and boundaries that impede joint working. This article describes the initial findings of a study canvassing the views of first intake of students, including roles, responsibilities and professional perceptions.
Subject terms:
joint working, interprofessional relations, learning disabilities, nurses, qualifications, social workers, students, staff development, training, community learning disabilities teams, education;
Collection of papers exploring current challenges facing practitioners across a broad spectrum of the caring professions. Includes chapters on: reshaping welfare; the public administration model of welfare delivery; community care in the 1990s; changes in maternity policy; human behaviour and social policy; theory and practice in health and social care; applying reflective practice; reflection and reflective practice; requirements of a caregiver; social work values; anti oppressive theory and practice in social work; working with diversity; keys to collaboration; collaboration and conflict within the treatment team; using psychotherapeutic concepts to understand team conflict; the missing link in quality assurance for disabled people; developing the role of user involvement in the UK; the role of women support staff in relation to men with learning difficulties who have difficult sexual behaviour; care costs; confidentiality, accountability and the boundaries of client worker relationships; obstacles to medical audit; the accreditation experience; the resettlement of people with severe learning difficulties; the creative work of care package purchasing; voluntary sector boards in a changing public policy environment; professional practice in social work and health care; a new social basis for welfare; and user voice, interprofessionalism and postmodernity.
Collection of papers exploring current challenges facing practitioners across a broad spectrum of the caring professions. Includes chapters on: reshaping welfare; the public administration model of welfare delivery; community care in the 1990s; changes in maternity policy; human behaviour and social policy; theory and practice in health and social care; applying reflective practice; reflection and reflective practice; requirements of a caregiver; social work values; anti oppressive theory and practice in social work; working with diversity; keys to collaboration; collaboration and conflict within the treatment team; using psychotherapeutic concepts to understand team conflict; the missing link in quality assurance for disabled people; developing the role of user involvement in the UK; the role of women support staff in relation to men with learning difficulties who have difficult sexual behaviour; care costs; confidentiality, accountability and the boundaries of client worker relationships; obstacles to medical audit; the accreditation experience; the resettlement of people with severe learning difficulties; the creative work of care package purchasing; voluntary sector boards in a changing public policy environment; professional practice in social work and health care; a new social basis for welfare; and user voice, interprofessionalism and postmodernity.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, joint working, interprofessional relations, learning disabilities, mixed economy of care, NHS, nurses, multidisciplinary services, physical disabilities, prevention, quality assurance, reflective practice, severe learning disabilities, social policy, social services, social welfare, social care, social care provision, social work methods, social work theories, staff-user relationships, teamwork, voluntary sector, accountability, anti-discriminatory practice, anti-oppressive practice, black and minority ethnic people, community care, ethics, health care;