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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.

Exploring the barriers to identification of chronic pain in people with learning disabilities

Barriers to identifying chronic pain in people with learning disabilities

Health inequalities and lack of research prevent chronic pain from being managed

Exploring practice leadership in intellectual disability services: a concept analysis

Exploring practice leadership in intellectual disability services: a concept analysis

Essential attributes are to embed service values, be person-oriented and deliver active support

Effects of learning disability and autism training on healthcare professionals’ perspectives and practice: a scoping review

Effects of learning disability and autism training on healthcare professionals

Knowledge, confidence and screening behaviours are all potential benefits

Supporting autistic refugees in the UK using the HOPE(S) model

Supporting autistic refugees in the UK using the HOPE(S) model

Focusing on the harmful effects of solitary confinement on autistic refugees

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Understanding how including ‘experts by experience’ in nurse education can improve care quality

Including ‘experts by experience’ in nurse education can improve care quality

The importance of nurses learning from people with lived experience

Exploring the accuracy of the online version of the Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire

Exploring the online version of the Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire

The online version may offer a quick, easy way to help reduce people ‘hidden’ from healthcare services

Spiritual care and learning disability nursing: an exploratory review of the literature

Spiritual care and learning disability nursing: an exploratory review of the literature

More research on spiritual care could add to the evidence base that nurses draw on to provide holistic care

Finding Ivy: a life worthy of life – learning from the stories of victims of the Nazis’ Aktion T4 killing programme

Finding Ivy: lessons from life stories of victims of the Nazis’ Aktion T4 programme

The project will give nurses greater sensitivity to practices that might threaten those in their care

Improving reasonable adjustments for people with learning disabilities in mental health tribunals

Reasonable adjustments for people with learning disabilities in mental health tribunals

A project involving people with learning disabilities and psychiatrists led to practical changes

Learning disability nursing in a remote and rural location: benefits and challenges

Learning disability nursing in a remote and rural location: benefits and challenges

To meet the needs of a remote community, the nursing role frequently requires autonomous working

Exploring the short-term impact of using the Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire in a service for people experiencing homelessness

Using the Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire for homeless people

Homeless services may not recognise service users’ intellectual disabilities

Forensic risk assessment in people with learning disabilities: principles and process

The process aims to provide a nuanced understanding of factors that may lead to offending...

Promoting oral health for people with learning disabilities

How interventions such as desensitisation and reasonable adjustments can address challenges

How to support adherence to medicines among people with learning disabilities

A strategy is needed that includes education, reasonable adjustments and medication reviews

Supporting people with learning disabilities and needle phobia to be vaccinated

How a desensitisation programme was used to prepare people for the COVID-19 vaccination

How to diagnose constipation in people with learning disabilities

Diagnosis can be complicated by behaviours of concern in this patient group

Exploring the experiences of fathers who have a child with a learning disability

A literature review showed the need for tailored services or interventions to support fathers

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