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- Title
Supporting students to care for people with learning disabilities.
- Authors
Kwiatek, Elaine; Powell, Hazel; Mathieson, Alex
- Abstract
NHS Education for Scotland is working with higher education institutions and other partners to contribute to recommendations outlined in Strengthening the Commitment, the UK-wide review of learning disability nursing. This article focuses on the recommendation to help undergraduates in adult, mental health and children's nursing to develop core knowledge and skills necessary to work safely and appropriately with people with learning disabilities in general health services. Traditional ways to help students gain experience of caring for people with learning disabilities have tended to depend on the commitment of individual lecturers, and consequently have been inconsistent. This article describes how the 'Thinking Space' approach was used to support lecturers and other professionals in enabling students to achieve required outcomes regarding learning disability care, and to meet the requirements of the review's recommendation.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; NURSING education; CLINICAL competence; MEDICAL quality control; NATIONAL health services; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities; ORGANIZATIONAL change; QUALITY assurance; TEACHING methods; ATTITUDES toward disabilities
- Publication
Learning Disability Practice, 2016, Vol 19, Issue 3, p24
- ISSN
1465-8712
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7748/ldp.19.3.24.s21