Why learning disability nurses must stand up for the specialty
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Why learning disability nurses must stand up for the specialty

Louise Cogher @LouiseCogher Lecturer in learning disabilities, Keele University. Staffordshire

There is debate in mental health and children’s nursing fields about the creeping erosion of specialist field-specific content from undergraduate nursing programmes in favour of a more ‘generic’ approach to curriculum design and delivery.

Learning Disability Practice. 26, 3, 5-5. doi: 10.7748/ldp.26.3.5.s1

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