Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>In a review of literature concerning the use of physical interventions in learning disability services, Harris (1996) concluded that an unfortunate consequence of sever
<p>Life story books originated in social services settings for use with children who were being placed for adoption and fostering (Ryan and Walker 1985, 1993).
<p>The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is not planning to recommend an end to specialist learning disability nurse training and replace it with a generic alternative,
<p>Care mapping could high-light areas of staff weak-ness and help improve standards of person-centred care.
<p>Health professionals and carers of people with learning disabilities are currently in an uncertain legal position in relation to many of the activities they undertake f
<p>The need to facilitate the expression of spirituality among people with a learning disability has occupied me for some years (Foster 2000).
<p>The Scottish Executive has funded a three-year project to examine the effectiveness of an original, augmented communication resource called Talking Mats™ (Murphy 1998,
<p>A growing number of people with learning disabilities either have babies or want to have one.
<p>The settings in which interventions for people with challenging behaviour take place can vary greatly according to the nature of the behaviour and the skills and needs
<p>The Valuing People White Paper (DoH 2001) provided a springboard for a wide range of new initiatives that were intended to improve services and the quality of life for
<p>Learning disability services are facing a major demographic crisis.
<p>Most people worry when they are told they have cancer. They also become anxious if somebody close to them develops the condition.
<p>Listening to parents is an important part of any children’s nurse’s day.
<p>The way in which research is conducted in the learning disabilities field has undergone a massive shift over the past three decades, two leading nurse researchers told delegates attending one of the 200-odd sessions at the conference.</p>
<p>Contrasting definitions of what constitutes a ‘learning disability’ trigger significant amounts of confusion among professionals, according to Elisabeth Milne, a consultant psychiatrist at Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire.</p>
<p>Breast cancer has been a major cause of death from cancer among women for some years (TCR 1997).
<p>The level of aggression confronting staff in learning disability services is a major concern (Rees and Lehane 1996). Members of staff face a greater risk of encountering aggressive behaviour compared to their counterparts in other fields (Emerson and Hatton 2003, McKenzie 1999).
<p>As in other countries, the choice of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) as a nursing specialty is not common among nurses in the United States.</p>
