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Let’s get visible

01 February 2011

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

WHAT IS the scariest audience a nurse teacher can face? A non-branch group who do not want to know about learning disabilities? How about an interprofessional...

Positive choices

01 September 2006

Learning Disability Practice

Letter

Dear Editor, Following on from the success of Positive Choices 2006, and acting on participants’ evaluations, we are in the process of planning the April 2007...

Alphabet kids: from ADD to Zellweger Syndrome

01 May 2009

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

ATTRACTIVELY PACKAGED, this book would, at first glance, seem to be appropriate for learning disability nursing students, others undertaking study into learning...

Warrior Mums

27 June 2014

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

IN THIS collection of blogs, 12 mothers with children with learning disabilities tell their stories about birth, diagnosis and care, and their battles on behalf of...

With a Little Help from My Friends

01 April 2013

Learning Disability Practice

Book review

THE AUTHOR of this book worked in a learning disability hospital on the early 1970s, when, at the age of 19, she became the youngest single woman in the UK to become...

road to success: recognising service users’ contribution to the development of practice

01 May 2007

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Over the last 25 years there has been growing emphasis placed on the rights of people who have a learning disability, the impact of historical modes of care, and the...

Student life - Expanding the boundaries

22 February 2017

Nursing Standard

Students

As a learning disability nurse, you will be equipped with the same professional toolkit as your colleagues in the adult, children’s and mental health branches: the...

What will the ‘new normal’ be for nurses post COVID-19?

30 July 2020

Learning Disability Practice

Editorial

The mainstream media uses the phrase the ‘new normal’ constantly, but post COVID-19, what will the new normal be for us as learning disability nurses?

Lost consent

06 August 1997

Nursing Standard

Opinion

IN SPITE of our differences we could all be subject to medical research under the new European Union rule signed THIS year at the Council of Europe Convention on...

European dictators move on medicine

04 June 1997

Nursing Standard

Letter

A Daily Telegraph report (April 7) shocked and disgusted us. It alleged: ‘A new European convention will allow medical research conducted on people who cannot...