Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Service provision in Scotland for people with an intellectual disability and dementia:...
Aim Good practice guidelines aim to promote equity and quality in service provision to...
‘Sweet dreams’: an evidence-based approach to effective sleep hygiene maintenance for...
Sleep is an essential activity of daily living that is often overlooked in approaches to...
Syndromes: Tuberous sclerosis
Our series about conditions that constitute a syndrome looks at tuberous sclerosis
Effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction course on the psychological well-being...
Aim To evaluate the effect of a 12-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course...
Syndromes: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
A series about conditions with common symptoms that constitute a syndrome
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-...
Use of colour-coded wristbands to improve care for people with learning disabilities in...
People with a learning disability often experience health inequalities. Inquiries and...
An evaluation of the Health Equality Framework in south east Scotland
The Health Equality Framework (HEF) is an outcome measurement tool to record any work that...