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Health for all?
- Authors:
- BLAIR Jim, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, September 2008, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The authors explain the importance of learning disability nurses and their role in multidisciplinary teams.
Services for young people and adolescents: supplementary report to the national audit of specialist inpatient healthcare services for people with learning difficulties in England
- Author:
- HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Healthcare Commission
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part of the material produced by the Healthcare Commission to support the findings from the national audit of specialist inpatient healthcare services for people with learning difficulties in England, this report provides details on the findings relating specifically to services for young people and adolescents. It is intended to be read alongside the full report of the audit, 'A Life Like No Other'. The exercise identified eight specialist inpatient healthcare services for adolescents across England, and as part of the audit six of these were visited. This report sets out the findings in the following areas: number and type of services; peer review visits; my needs; my choices; my day; my rights; me, and others; my wellbeing; staff; monitoring services; commissioning issues. Conclusions and recommendations are then summarised. It concludes that, from the evidence in the audit, young people in specialist services for adolescents are generally safe and protected from abuse, have their health needs met overall, and are well supported by staff, who receive the mandatory training they need to help young people. It discusses the findings and issues raised, and describes proposed next steps.
Do learning disability nurses adhere to zero tolerance of patient abuse?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 9.12.08, 2008, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Summarises the results from a focus group study that explored the extent to which health care adhered to best practice in relation to zero tolerance of abuse in learning disability services.
Frontline care in Irish intellectual disability services: the contribution of nurses and non-nurse care staff
- Authors:
- SHEERIN Fintan K., McCONKEY Roy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 12(2), June 2008, pp.127-141.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
The ongoing development of generic intellectual disability services in Ireland, driven by a policy of inclusion and normalization, has posed significant challenges to the interdisciplinary team, with the creation of new frontline carer roles not linked to any particular profession. It is within this context that attention has been focused on the appropriateness of nursing to frontline caring in intellectual disability service provision. The separation of caring and nursing posts that is now evident within many residential services suggests that decisions have already been made regarding the appropriateness of nursing within particular settings. These decisions have, however, been made in the absence of any real attempt to delineate the contribution of nursing to frontline caring in Ireland. This study is the first of its type in Ireland and seeks to set out the unique interventional contribution of nursing and non-nurse caring within frontline intellectual disability services.