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Keeping the faith
- Author:
- McMILLAN Ian A.
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, July 2011, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The chief nursing officers of the four UK countries have recently commissioned a UK-wide project to develop a coherent approach to learning disability nursing. This article reflects on the importance of the role of the learning disability nurse in ensuring the best possible access to health services for people with learning disabilities. Despite this need, learning disability nursing posts continue to be cut leading to a reduction in the number of post in England from 12,500 in 1995 to just over 6000 in 2009. This is one of the challenges the UK-wide nursing project will address.
Professional boundaries in learning disability care
- Authors:
- BOWLER Mandy, NASH Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 110(21), 2014, pp.12-15.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Healthcare staff providing care for people with a learning disability often deliver intimate personal care and have access to confidential information about vulnerable clients. Awareness of professional boundaries can help them to avoid either under- or over-involvement with patients and clients. This article gives examples of how South Tyneside Foundation Trust learning disabilities services support the education and training of staff working within the community and domiciliary care services in maintaining boundaries with patients. (Edited publisher abstract)
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.