Training school nurses in pain assessment benefits students with learning disabilities
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Training school nurses in pain assessment benefits students with learning disabilities

Dave Atkinson Independent consultant nurse

If not recognised and addressed, learning disabled students’ experiences of pain can cause absenteeism and reduce their ability to engage in and benefit from educational activities.

Learning Disability Practice. 22, 1, 10-10. doi: 10.7748/ldp.22.1.10.s8

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