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Enhancing service users’ capacity and capability

01 October 2013

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

This article describes the implementation of an eight-week programme to teach research skills to people with learning disabilities. After a focus group was held to...

Ensuring clients have the capacity to consent to treatment

01 March 2013

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

Aim This article discusses the evaluation of a consent form for adults with learning disabilities who are referred to specialist learning disability dementia...

Involvement of service users in the recruitment of staff

01 March 2012

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

One of the most important decisions that is made about people with learning disabilities who receive community-based care concerns the recruitment of their support...

The involvement of service users in nursing students’ education

08 April 2011

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

This article outlines the impact, merits and challenges of service users’ and carers’ contributions to learning disability nurse training, and the practical...

Service user involvement in nursing students’ training

12 September 2012

Mental Health Practice

Feature

A preliminary study suggests that service users’ involvement in mental health nurse education can dispel students’ preconceptions and help them to develop more...

Service user involvement in preregistration child nursing programmes

05 December 2017

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence & practice

Service user involvement is a fundamental part of preregistration nursing education programmes, however achieving this for child nursing students is challenging....

Service user input in pre-registration children’s nursing education

07 May 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

The Nursing and Midwifery Council pre-registration standards include service user involvement in all aspects of the curricula, and the subject has been high on the...

The 15 steps challenge: a toolkit for good care

28 December 2012

Nursing Management

Feature

An initiative to improve ward efficiency brought about the 15 Steps Challenge, which analyses the care provided from the patient’s perspective. This toolkit has now...

Improving services through co-operative learning

01 March 2013

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

This article describes a project in which people with intellectual disabilities, their families and care staff were taught how to collaborate in the improvement of...

Reaching a consensus on service-user involvement in courses for professionals

25 July 2014

Nurse Researcher

Group technique

Aim To describe how a workshop that used a modified nominal group technique (NGT) was used at the end of a research project to develop a standard of education and...