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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.

Children’s educational rights: protected or undermined?

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of Children is a framework for involving...

Opportunity knocks?

In December 2003, the prime minister’s strategy unit, which helps government...

self advocates leading person centred planning

Person centred planning is currently one of the most frequently heard phrases....

training to meet the challenge

The need for in-service training to support staff groups working with people with...

Time to get equal

The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has just launched an 18-month formal...

Women’s health in Doncaster

Last September, the beautiful, old Bawtry Hall in Doncaster was filled for a day...

Scotland the brave

Learning disability nurse education in Scotland is undergoing a shake-up in the...

death counts: the challenge of death and dying in learning disability services

There’s nothing new in declaring that inequality and difference can characterise...

using person centred planning and approaches with children and their families

‘I thought I knew my son so well until we started planning with John. This changed...

publishing in cyberspace: health workers’ use of information

The popular author Terry Pratchett (2001) has an expressive way of writing. For...

health screening

Government reports and practice documents have increasingly emphasised the need for...

The net widens

The National Network for Learning Disability Nurses (NNLDN) is set to become truly...

a joint practice nurse/community learning disability nurse annual health check for...

Moves are currently under way to provide better, more rational and improved...

the impact of control and restraint training on nursing students

The aggression of people with learning disabilities presents a difficult challenge...

Why medication matters

With approximately 600 million prescriptions dispensed a year, it is likely that...

nursing and advocacy in person centred planning

The recommendations of Valuing People (Department of Health (DoH) 2001), and more...

measuring the reliability and perceived usefulness of nursing progress measures

The concept of measuring nursing outcomes is complex. Nursing outcome research is...

person centred planning and system change

There is always a tension between the kind of planning that professionals must do...

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