person centred planning and care management
The Valuing People White Paper (Department of Health 2001) stressed the importance...
01 Jul 2004
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.
Joint training: best of both worlds?
Many views, doubts and hopes have been expressed about joint training since its...
01 Jul 2004
learning disability research: a discussion paper
Part of my role as research co-ordinator in the learning disability directorate of...
01 Jul 2004
consulted or excluded?
We live in a culture in which national and local policy drivers emphasise the need...
01 Jul 2004
person centered health action planning
Person centered planning (PCP) is a key component of this government’s Valuing...
01 Jun 2004
Spiritual healing
Spirituality is a basic human need and a human right. Most would agree that...
01 Jun 2004
the impact of nurse education on staff attributions in relation to challenging behaviour
There has been a growing debate about the role of learning disability nursing as a...
01 Jun 2004
The management of challenging sexual behaviour
Care providers need to do more to acknowledge that challenging sexual behaviour is...
01 Jun 2004
Minority report
There are few issues in the field of learning disabilities on which everyone -...
01 May 2004
spoilt for choice?
Choice is increasingly taking centre stage of the modernisation agenda within the...
01 May 2004
‘what’ and ‘how’: understanding professional involvement in person centred planning...
Beginning with case studies about planning, we describe the planning styles that...
01 May 2004
Exploring Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory in learning disability nursing:...
Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory (Orem 2001) is widely used and accepted by...
01 May 2004
Exploring Orem’s self-care model in learning disability nursing: Practical application...
The development of nursing knowledge has been a theme in general nursing literature...
01 May 2004
risk assessment and epilepsy
The primary aim of this article is to share a multidisciplinary model for risk...
01 Apr 2004
never ceasing our exploration: understanding person centred planning
When first contemplating writing this article we considered what aspect of person...
01 Apr 2004
Resolution for change
With the closure of the majority of the long-stay learning disability hospitals and...
01 Apr 2004
Scaling a mountain
T he conference, which built on a similar event held last year in London, aimed to...
01 Apr 2004
Time to end cycle of failure in Scotland
The Scottish Executive is currently considering the implications of a new...
01 Apr 2004