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Working without labels
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 29.3.90, 1990, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
A multidisciplinary group discuss how changes in service provision to people with learning difficulties will affect social workers and nurses.
The role of nurses in meeting the health care needs of older people with intellectual disabilities: a review of the published literature
- Author:
- JENKINS Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 16(2), June 2012, pp.85-95.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
Through medical intervention, people with intellectual disabilities now live longer in the UK and Ireland. As a consequence they are likely to have greater physical and mental health needs when compared to the general population. This review explored whether nurses have a crucial role to play in meeting such needs, and whether nurses are prepared for this role. A search was conducted for relevant English language articles dated between 1990 and 2011. Overall, there was little evidence of nurses undertaking effective interventions in meeting the health needs of older people with intellectual disabilities. Nurses have been alerted to the increase in numbers of older people with intellectual disabilities and offered some direction on their future role in this area. However, most of the current literature is based on informed opinion rather than research.
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.
Looking both ways: the extra dimensions of a dual qualification
- Author:
- THOMPSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 8(3), January 1995, pp.19-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
South Bank University, in partnership with service colleagues, offers a degree which encompasses two of the major professional qualifications relevant to this work - nursing and social work. Outlines the philosophy behind the degree.
Diverse options
- Author:
- TURNBULL John
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 2.6.93, 1993, pp.62-63.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
What will be the role of the learning disability nurse in the wake of the community care reforms? Considers two different approaches - the Somerset SSD/HA strategy which put social services in the lead agency role in services for people with learning difficulties, and services provided in Gwent under the All Wales Strategy.
Learning disabilities: the challenge for nursing
- Author:
- MATTHEWS David R.
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.7.96, 1996, pp.36-38.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Over the past 10 years, people with learning disabilities have moved out of institutions and into the community. Their care is now seen as a social, rather than a health, issue. But there is a danger that this may lead to their general health needs being over looked. Argues that specialist registered mental handicap nurses are ideally suited to bridging this gap, possibly in partnership with primary health care teams.
Your case or mine?
- Author:
- TURNBULL John
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 5.6.96, 1996, pp.62-63.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains why it is not always clear which agencies or health professionals should be providing care to clients in the community. Focuses on the cases of people with learning difficulties who also have mental health problems.
A lifetime of opportunity
- Author:
- SMITH Kay
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 2.11.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
People with learning disabilities are now living longer and this means a rethink of current services. Asks how will nurses be involved.
Learning disabilities: a handbook of care
- Editors:
- SHANLEY Eamon, STARRS Thomas A.
- Publisher:
- Churchill Livingstone
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 340p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Previously published under the title Mental handicap. Gives practical ways of providing a user centred service to people with learning difficulties through the promotion of self help. Stresses the importance of multidisciplinary teamwork and of involving families in such teams. Aimed in particular at student nurses and social workers.
Seamless service
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.7.02, 2002, p.44.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
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.