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.
Multiple morbidities assessment
People with multiple morbidities need a tailored approach to care, according to a new...
07 Oct 2016
Critical analysis of the STAPLLE behaviour support programme and comparison with the...
Challenging behaviour is any culturally abnormal behaviour that places the person, or others...
26 Sep 2016
Prescribing of psychotropic medicines: the role of learning disability nurses
NHS England has committed to reduce the amount of psychotropic medicines being prescribed...
26 Sep 2016
Bowel cancer screening for people with learning disabilities: establishing principles...
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in England, and with one in 20 people...
26 Sep 2016
Medication use in residential care for older people with intellectual disabilities
A growing body of literature documents multiple morbidities and multiple medication use...
26 Aug 2016
Changing lives through happiness
How prioritising the person and what makes them happy has transformed the lives of...
26 Aug 2016
Health Equality Framework shows promise in improving service users’ well-being
The Health Equality Framework (HEF) is a tool that records the work of learning disability...
26 Aug 2016
Developing an outcome measure and feedback tool for children with intellectual...
There has been a move in children’s services to encourage greater participation by children...
26 Aug 2016
The Mental Capacity Act in action
The Mental Capacity Act framework is essential to ensuring good practice in the treatment of...
26 Aug 2016
Developing an outcome measure and feedback tool for children with intellectual...
There has been a move in children’s services to encourage greater participation by children...
08 Aug 2016
Health Equality Framework: Scottish project shows promise
The Health Equality Framework (HEF) is a tool that records the work of learning disability...
28 Jul 2016
Nursing supervision: challenges and opportunities for success
Supervision is an important resource for nursing and there is an extensive evidence base to...
27 Jun 2016
Enhancing the experience of people with intellectual disabilities who access health care
Increased life expectancy allied to increasing numbers of people with learning disabilities...
27 Jun 2016
Taking your time: mindfulness for learning disability nursing students
Mindfulness is used increasingly by nurses to help people with a learning disability – and...
27 Jun 2016
‘The doctors said I would be a “cabbage”, unable to walk or talk’
At 19 Jonathan Beebee confounded doctors by making a full recovery after a violent...
23 Jun 2016
Better access to cancer screening
This article reports on a Queen’s Nursing Institute funded project that ran in 2015. The...
25 May 2016
Factors that influence nurses’ decisions about secluding people with learning...
Seclusion has been found to be used disproportionately in the learning disability population...
25 May 2016
People with intellectual disabilities moving into adulthood
People with an intellectual disability who aspire to further education, and who seek...
25 May 2016