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.
Spiritual healing
Spirituality is a basic human need and a human right. Most would agree that...
the impact of nurse education on staff attributions in relation to challenging behaviour
There has been a growing debate about the role of learning disability nursing as a...
The management of challenging sexual behaviour
Care providers need to do more to acknowledge that challenging sexual behaviour is...
Minority report
There are few issues in the field of learning disabilities on which everyone -...
spoilt for choice?
Choice is increasingly taking centre stage of the modernisation agenda within the...
‘what’ and ‘how’: understanding professional involvement in person centred planning...
Beginning with case studies about planning, we describe the planning styles that...
Exploring Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory in learning disability nursing:...
Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory (Orem 2001) is widely used and accepted by...
Exploring Orem’s self-care model in learning disability nursing: Practical application...
The development of nursing knowledge has been a theme in general nursing literature...
risk assessment and epilepsy
The primary aim of this article is to share a multidisciplinary model for risk...
never ceasing our exploration: understanding person centred planning
When first contemplating writing this article we considered what aspect of person...
Resolution for change
With the closure of the majority of the long-stay learning disability hospitals and...
Scaling a mountain
T he conference, which built on a similar event held last year in London, aimed to...
Time to end cycle of failure in Scotland
The Scottish Executive is currently considering the implications of a new...
risk assessment and management of suicide and self-harm within a forensic learning...
Risk assessment and risk management have been on the government’s agenda since the...
person centred planning & professional workshops
The following is an overview of a process that has been started by the Valuing...
beyond rhetoric: access to mainstream health services in Ireland
It has been argued that Ireland is atypical among its European neighbours in...
Developing a multi-agency core training programme for staff working in learning...
It has long been recognised that good quality services for people with a learning...
making a difference
In June 2000 I wrote an article for this journal titled ‘Pioneering spirit’ (LDP...