Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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This article reports on a self-assessment audit of a clinical nurse specialist in health promotion and intellectual disability care.
People with learning disabilities and dysphagia need specialist support and advice to ensure that they eat and drink safely, and that communication problems
Intensive interaction is a way of improving communication with children and adults who have severe or profound learning disabilities and/or autism.
This case study describes one aspect of successful person-centred planning by intellectual disability nurses for a 68-year-old man who is preoccupied by rit
In Bradford, the Healthier Lives group, part of Bradford People First, and a local strategic health facilitator have been training professionals to become a
Aim To improve the treatment, care and monitoring of women with learning disabilities who receive oral contraceptive pills and long-term anti-e
This article describes part of the evaluation of the mindfulness programme, which has been run collaboratively by nurses, psychology staff and patients for
Dysphagia has a detrimental effect on quality of life, particularly among people with learning disabilities.
The author of this article, a nursing student, proposes a model of support for families in which children have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum condit
The evidence base for assertive outreach services in the UK is limited.
Children and young people with learning disabilities are over-represented among perpetrators and victims of sexual offences.
Research has shown positive behaviour support to be effective in minimising challenging behaviours and replacing them with socially valid alternatives.
This article describes the implementation of an eight-week programme to teach research skills to people with learning disabilities.
The aim of the research described here was to determine precisely the role of registered nurses in caring for adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities in residential care in Ireland.
As people with learning disabilities live longer, they become more likely to experience or encounter dementia. Many will live with fellow service users who have been diagnosed with the condition.
Many people with learning disabilities exhibit some form of challenging behaviour. Research has shown that positive behavioural support (PBS) is effective in minimising or replacing these behaviours, but only if PBS strategies are followed correctly.
When the contributions of a group of people with autism and Asperger syndrome to a study of stress were not acknowledged, the participants were understandably upset, but the researchers’ efforts to remedy the situation made things worse.
Comparisons of recovery-oriented and person-centred approaches to the care of people with learning disabilities reveal that the two complementary processes enable clients to have some control in their lives.
