Editor's choice
Campaign aims to make learning disability nursing a more appealing career option
Ageing workforce and universities scaling down courses seen as contributory factors
Newsroom
Restraint and isolation: what lessons have been learned since Winterbourne View?
Guidance says the use of restraint should only be used as a last resort
Create robust post-trauma and mental health support for staff, report advises
Health Education England commission recommends 33 improvements
Gender pay gap: male nurses disproportionately represented in profession’s top jobs
Men reach higher Agenda for Change pay grades faster than women – London South Bank study
Helen Whyley takes up permanent post as RCN Wales director
New head says she is proud to lead the team that supports and advocates for nurses
Nurses meet to start planning campaign for a safe staffing law
RCN members in England begin latest move to lobby government over nurse numbers
Celebrate your work and others who have helped you at the RCNi Nurse Awards 2019
Chair of judges Yvonne Coghill says her recent CBE ‘belongs to a lot of people’
Evidence and Practice
Inhaler and nebuliser technique for people with a learning disability
Healthcare professionals who support people who require an inhaler or nebuliser need to know...
Consanguinity and the links to learning disabilities: the issues and pressures
Consanguinity is defined as the result of a sexual reproduction of two related individuals,...
Drug-induced dysphagia and the high-risk effect on people with intellectual disabilities
Research indicates that aspirate pneumonia as a result of dysphagia can be one of the...
Developing strategic health facilitators to increase the uptake of annual learning...
People who have a learning disability have increased health risks compared to the general...
Syndromes: Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome)
A series about conditions with common symptoms that constitute syndromes
Helping young people who have learning disabilities and their families to plan end of...
Young people who have learning disabilities commonly have many complex and severe life-...
Features
A century of learning disability nursing
What can we learn from 100 years of learning disability nursing and should we celebrate?
Asthma clinic empowers people with a learning disability
A nurse-led chest clinic is helping respiratory patients learn to manage their conditions
Meet the autism pioneer with the drive to find out more
Janet Snell talks to a philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, whose work was inspired by her...
‘Ask Listen Do’ project aims to make things better for people with learning disabiities
How a collaborative enterprise was set up for carers to raise concerns about support services
A digitally inclusive era
The Tech4Good awards celebrate apps designed for people with learning disabilities
Using simple fixes to help patients access the best care
Healthcare Assistant Award winner gives a voice to people with learning disabilities
Opinion
Look back, but look forward
With 100 years of learning disability nursing behind us, what is next?
General hospitals need to be more welcoming for people who have learning disabilities
The notion that hospitals are unfavourable for service users was echoed by many nurses...
Passing the baton to the next generation of learning disability nurses
Thirty six years on and with change round every corner, what can the new cohort of nurses...
Students
What to do when words fail
Communication problems are not uncommon when people with complex needs are admitted to...
Using positive reinforcement to manage violence and aggression
Reminding a service user with learning disabilities how much her behaviour had improved...
A fresh take on medicines management for patients with a learning disability
Mental health nursing student Kirsty Killiard implemented a system for monitoring the use of...
Careers
‘Taking on a lone position has been a challenge. I love it’
Award-winning Penelope Clark moved her family 800 miles to take up a post as the only...
We saw first-hand how learning disability nurses helped our son
After witnessing their son’s care, a couple have decided to become learning disability nurses
It’s a real privilege to support a family at the end of their child’s life
Sabine Schwaebisch on her role as as a band 6 care team nurse in palliative care at Helen...