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.
Practising infection control: an evidence-based approach
Registered intellectual disability nurses in Ireland are required to use up-to-date...
05 May 2015
Helping service users to take control of their health
People with learning disabilities have more health needs than the general population, but...
30 Mar 2015
Person-centred care in practice to improve a client’s quality of life
As a learning disability nursing student, this article’s principle author (RW) worked with a...
30 Mar 2015
Music and the Social Model
IN THE short preface to this book the author discusses her life as an occupational...
30 Mar 2015
Safe internet access for service users
People with learning disabilities have historically been marginalised from mainstream...
30 Mar 2015
Transfer of skills and knowledge to rural Malawi
Five years ago, a Canadian-Irish project called Transformative Praxis was set up to transfer...
30 Mar 2015
How nursing students can empower professionals
With the deregulation of services, people with learning disabilities are now looked after...
02 Mar 2015
An intervention for people with learning disabilities and epilepsy
Epilepsy is relatively common in people with learning disabilities, and can be complex and...
02 Mar 2015
The Asperkid’s Game Plan
INTENDED FOR the parents of children with Asperger’s syndrome, this book is written...
02 Mar 2015
Role of reasonable adjustments in improving care: a case study
Healthcare and other services have a legal duty to ensure that people with learning...
02 Mar 2015
Learning Disabilities: Bold Visions
THIS IS the second book by the author that I have read. The first was a critique of...
02 Mar 2015
Evaluating service users’ quality of life
The Maslow Assessment of Needs Scale for Learning Disabilities (MANS-LD) and the World...
02 Mar 2015
The Anger Box: Sensory Turmoil and Pain in Autism
I REVIEWED this book with another on the same subject and thought at first that...
02 Feb 2015
Clinical Work with Substance-Abusing Clients
FOCUSING ON the clinical care of substance-misusing patients, this extensively...
02 Feb 2015
Autism Breakthrough
WITH 17 chapters over almost 370 pages, this book may appear daunting. However its...
02 Feb 2015
Service users’ perspectives on sex and sexuality
Background People with intellectual disabilities have the same sexual needs as the rest of...
02 Feb 2015
Making sure all nurses understand the needs of clients
In recent years learning disability nurses have had to demonstrate the viability of their...
02 Feb 2015
Managing clients placed far away from their communities
Background The number of people with learning disabilities and significant health needs who...
02 Feb 2015