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Learning Disability Nursing Practice.

Jukes, Mark.

Learning Disability Nursing Practice.

Jukes, Mark.

9781856424776

Jukes, Mark.

1st ed.

1 online resource (651 pages)

Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Body matter -- Section One: Origins -- Chapter 1. Mental deficiency institutions: Have the obituaries been fair and balanced? -- Chapter 2. Striving towards ordinariness within a regulatory system -- Chapter 3. Mental deficiency nursing and the GNC: A square peg in a round hole -- Section Two: Perspectives -- Chapter 4. From the workhouse to citizenship: Four ages of learning disability -- Chapter 5. Researching learning disability nursing -- Section Three: Practices -- Chapter 6. Community learning disability nursing -- Chapter 7. Health facilitation -- Chapter 8. Epilepsy and specialist learning disability practice -- Chapter 9. Nursing people with profound and multiple learning disabilities -- Chapter 10. Mental health and learning disability -- Chapter 11. Challenging behaviour: The contribution of nurse specialists -- Chapter 12. Forensic learning disability nursing practice -- Chapter 13. Autism spectrum conditions -- Chapter 14. Development of services for children -- Section Four: Further perspectives -- Chapter 15. Challenges for the curriculum in learning disability nursing -- Chapter 16. Inter-professional education -- Chapter 17. Continuing practice development in learning disability nursing -- Back matter -- Plates -- Also available.

This text encapsulates not only the origins of nursing in the learning disability field but also contemporary perspectives and areas for specialist nursing practice. The book is divided into four sections: origins, perspectives, practice, and further perspectives. Section one (origins) describes Great Barr Colony and explores the conceptions of practice of actual attendants and nurses who worked there. It gives readers an in-depth focus on aspects of work and practice not accounted for in the literature to date. Section two (perspectives) explores social policy perspectives from the past eras of the workhouse, the colony and the hospital, through to the present age of citizenship. Research in learning disability nursing practice is identifi ed through scoping exercises to identify its current status. The section questions the research and practice developments that have come of age and that constitute a challenge within an evidence-based health and social care world. Section three ...

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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