Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Assessing contentment and distress
This article focuses on the Disability Distress Assessment Tool, also known as the...
The good, the bad and the ugly: experiences of self-injury
Nurses’ attitudes towards people who self-injure can be negative and often...
Extended placements make students more effective
Recently I attended a seminar facilitated by Professor Phil Barker and _ Poppy...
Person-centred plans: empowering or controlling?
Person-centred planning is not an activity ‘done’ to people with an intellectual...
Passing the screen test
It is tricky trying to get people with learning disabilities to come forward for...
The reality check
According to research published in December the number of people with learning...
A tough act to follow
More people attended London’s theatres in 2008 than in any other year on record....
Alert to patients’ needs
Mencap’s Death by Indifference (2007) was a damning report that detailed the deaths...
Swimming guidelines for adults with epilepsy
It is important that people with learning disabilities have opportunities to...
Evaluation of anger management groups in learning disability populations
The motivation for writing this paper followed the development and delivery of a...
Financial freedom
Two years ago, Bradford took part in a pilot project called Dynamite, the aim of...
Kicking out ‘kicking off’: a debate on respectful terminology
Working alongside people who have a learning disability, we have become...
Cash control
So, a thumbs-up for individual budgets (IBs). Inevitably there are provisos, but...
Criminal injustice
‘If you’re someone like me, they treat you like a piece of dirt. My dad is not an...
Introducing person-centred planning: a case study
Recent figures show that there were 25,613 people registered on the—National...
The nursing student’s role in addressing health inequalities
As Driscoll and Teh (2001) observe: ‘Reflection contributes to professional...
In hospital, but not ill
More than 300 people with learning disabilities are still in long-term NHS care in...
First, faltering steps to reform
The end of the beginning, perhaps? No one ever pretended that reforming England’s...