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Nursing supervision: challenges and opportunities for success

27 June 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Evidence & practice

Supervision is an important resource for nursing and there is an extensive evidence base to support its use. However, a clear understanding of the process is...

Overcoming barriers to best practice in a Belarusian orphanage

29 February 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

In August 2015, the authors spent a month volunteering in Belarus with Chernobyl Children’s Trust (CCT), a charity set up by Irish volunteers. CCT focuses on...

Helping people with learning disabilities exercise their right to autonomy

27 August 2014

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

This article aims to give readers an overview of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its role in supporting the right to autonomy of people who, because of their...

Striking a balance between safety and free expression of sexuality

29 June 2015

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 emphasises the importance of assessing people’s capacity to make decisions about their lives. This is especially important when...

Talking about sex: a relationship awareness group for adults with a learning disability

26 September 2017

Learning Disability Practice

Evidence & practice

Sex and relationships are areas of taboo and disempowerment for marginalised groups such as people with learning disabilities. These topics also appear to be areas...

Supporting people across the lifespan: the role of learning disability nurses

26 May 2017

Learning Disability Practice

Evidence & practice

Strengthening the Commitment, the Modernising Learning Disabilities Nursing Review, highlighted the importance of learning disability nurses providing support across...

The role of intellectual assessment in learning disability services

01 February 2002

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

Intellectual assessments can play a key part in ensuring people with learning disabilities receive appropriate services. While IQ scores have been criticised in the...

The presentation and assessment of mental health problems in people with learning disabilities

01 April 2002

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

Mental health problems are more prevalent among people with learning disabilities, though they often go undetected and untreated. The authors provide an up to date...

Service users’ perspectives on sex and sexuality

02 February 2015

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

Background People with intellectual disabilities have the same sexual needs as the rest of the population, but find the expression of sexuality complex. Methodology...

Carers’ training in the administration of emergency rescue medication

05 May 2015

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

There is a higher prevalence of epilepsy in people with learning disabilities than in the general population. In the authors’ trust’s catchment area of Bedfordshire,...