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Safeguarding people with learning disabilities

08 February 2011

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

Safeguarding is an important role for learning disability nurses and other professionals. Their clients have increased vulnerability for many reasons, requiring...

‘Just another day dealing with wounds’: self-injury and staff-client relationships

01 May 2008

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

This article reports on aspects of a research project which asked clients in a medium-secure unit about their personal experiences of self-injury, specifically how...

Enabling people to give feedback about their health care

05 October 2011

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

This article describes a systematic review of approaches to measuring the satisfaction of people with learning disabilities with their health care. Methods to enable...

Stepping into the shoes of service users

30 September 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

By taking on the roles of observer, client and co-therapist in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) workshops, trainee psychological therapists can practise CBT methods...

Use of seclusion in psychiatric intensive care units

09 April 2015

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

This literature review aims to discover the factors that influence staff working on psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) to implement seclusion. Identifying...

Power to the profession

17 April 2007

Nursing Standard

Feature

The chief nursing officer’s review of mental health nursing is leading to a redesign of pre-registration nurse education through approaches that value services...