Caring for People With Learning Disabilities: A Guide for Non-Specialist Nurses - Couverture souple

Barber, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908625287 ISBN 13 : 9781908625281

Editeur : Lantern Publishing Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

From the Foreword by Cecilia Anim (RCN President, 2015):
'...an enjoyable, touching and inspirational read for all those involved in the lives of people with learning disabilities'
The vast majority of student nurses, practising nurses and healthcare professionals are not learning disability specialists, but will still need to treat and care for patients with learning disabilities on a regular basis.
Caring for People with Learning Disabilities is a concise introduction to the subject which covers all aspects of the care and support of the learning disabilities patient, for the non-specialist.
Written in a jargon-free style, the book has numerous practical examples and case studies to really help the reader frame the special requirements of the learning disabilities patient in the healthcare setting.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. What is learning disability?
3. People with profound and multiple learning disabilities
4. Legislation, strategies and reports for those with a learning disability
5. Medical care and support for those with a learning disability
6. Learning disability and consent to treatment
7. Learning disability and mental health
8. Learning disability and forensic care
9. Sexuality and people with a learning disability
10. Ageing and those with a learning disability
11. Dying, death and bereavement and people with a learning disability
12. Care and support for those who are informal care givers
13. Disability and carer discrimination
14. Learning disability and spirituality
15. The future and learning disability

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

The author is a registered nurse (learning disabilities), qualifying as such in December 1989. He has worked in a wide variety of clinical settings, both residential and community, with a wide variety of service users (those who are on the autism spectrum, those with sensory impairments, those whose behaviour challenges services, those who require forensic services and care, and those with mental health issues). He is a parent of a young man who is also on the autism spectrum and he himself was diagnosed at the end of 2008 as being high-functioning autistic. He holds an MEd from the University of Birmingham in special educational needs (autism). He sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Nursing and the British Journal of Health Care Assistants, and as well as having written a number of articles/papers on a wide variety of subjects including learning disabilities, care givers, spirituality and autism, he is the author of Autism and Asperger's Conditions, published by Quay Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908625287
• ISBN 13: 9781908625281
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible