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Deep nursing: a thoughtful, co-created nursing process

30 March 2017

Nursing Management

Evidence & practice

This article examines some of the challenges in nursing practice experienced by patients and nurses in the UK and Ireland, and considers some of the associated...

Enhancing the experience of people with intellectual disabilities who access health care

27 June 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Evidence & practice

Increased life expectancy allied to increasing numbers of people with learning disabilities living in the community means that more people with learning disabilities...

Urinary continence promotion and people with an intellectual disability

18 May 2018

Learning Disability Practice

Continence is regarded as a basic need and many continence problems can be addressed and managed effectively. People with an intellectual disability (ID) are at...

Supporting safe eating and drinking for people with severe and profound intellectual and multiple disabilities

24 January 2018

Learning Disability Practice

Evidence & practice

This article outlines the difficulties that people with severe and profound intellectual and multiple disabilities may have when swallowing. The article explains the...

‘Sweet dreams’: an evidence-based approach to effective sleep hygiene maintenance for people with an intellectual disability

14 March 2019

Learning Disability Practice

Person-centred care

Sleep is an essential activity of daily living that is often overlooked in approaches to caring for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). Poor sleep, insomnia...

25 March 2019 / Vol 22 issue 2

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  2. Safeguarding people with learning disabilities

    Safeguarding is an important role for learning disability...

  3. Dysphagia in people with learning disabilities

    Dysphagia has a detrimental effect on quality of life,...

  4. Unique role of learning disability liaison nurses

    It is recognised that people with learning disabilities who...

  5. Use of physical restraint: ethical, legal and political issues

    This article explores the ethicolegal and political factors...

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