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
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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.
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
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
How nurses grieve for children who die in their care
Background The personal grief of nurses who care for the palliative needs of children with...
29 Mar 2016
Supporting students to care for people with learning disabilities
NHS Education for Scotland is working with higher education institutions and other partners...
29 Mar 2016
Evaluation of an ‘understanding and managing feelings group’
This article describes the evaluation of a group intervention designed to promote the...
29 Feb 2016
Successful transfers to out-of-area placements
The Winterbourne View inquiry highlighted issues about people with learning disabilities who...
26 Jan 2016
Applying ethical principles to restraint practice
There are about 1.14 million people in the UK who have a learning disability, of whom more...
26 Jan 2016