Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>This article explains how a discussion group was set up by a community learning disabilities nurse in partnership with other healthcare professionals to promote improve
<p>The closure of residential homes for service users over recent decades has reduced opportunities for learning disability nursing students to practise their clinical ski
<p>This year, athletes with learning disabilities were allowed to compete at the Paralympic Games for the first time in 12 years.
<p>The abuse revealed in last year’s Panorama documentary, Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed, was not an isolated event.
<p>This case study describes a person-centred process in which a young man with learning disabilities, anxiety and bipolar disorder was helped to understand and manage his
<p>This article describes the findings of an online survey exploring contraception for people with learning disabilities.
<p>In this, the final article in a series of three, Gwen Moulster, Sarah Ames and Tom Griffiths describe the piloting, implementation, auditing and evaluation of the eclec
<p>The implementation of behavioural interventions changed the behaviour of a five-year-old boy with a learning disability and severe autism, who became aggressive when as
<p>This article describes a pilot scheme launched to address workforce needs in remote and rural areas of Scotland, in which three universities collaborated in the deliver
<p>This article, the second in a three-part series, describes a new framework for learning disability practice.
<p>This article outlines the progress made in the publication of guidelines for clinical commissioning groups involved in improving care outcomes for people with learning
<p>This article compares the experiences of certified developmental disability nurses in the United States with those of registered nurses in learning disabilities, their
<p>In this article, the author, who has recently received a national award for mentorship, explains the importance of open and respectful relationships between mentors and learning disability nursing students.
<p>This article refers to a personal narrative in which the parents of a child born with Down’s syndrome, who subsequently required surgical intervention for a duodenal atresia, experienced a poor standard of care.
<p>This article discusses the complexity of UK public health policy, and how it affects learning disability nurses and service users, especially in light of the recent shift in emphasis from the provision of treatments to the introduction of preventive interventions.
<p>This article, the first in a series of three on developing a framework for learning disability nursing practice, discusses how a bespoke nursing model was devised from elements of other models.
<p>Health checks for adults with learning disabilities were introduced in England in 2009, following a recommendation in the Department of Health (DH) (2008) document, Healthcare for All.
<p>There is a high recidivism rate among offenders with learning disabilities, in part because of inadequate accommodation, unemployment, substance misuse and mental illness.
