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A nurse uses a book with pictures to help explain a medical intervention to a person with a learning disability

 Experts with lived experience of having a learning disability offer advice on the im

02 Apr 2024
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Illustration showing two nursing team members in uniform standing pointing at a huge shift roster, as if discussing filling or swapping shifts

Nurses expect workload demands and pressures to influence shifts and rosters, but there ha

19 Mar 2024
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A nurse stands in front of a line of other nurses, looking happy and confident. Yet nurses often downplay their role

Managing high-stakes, safety-critical situations is a daily reality in nursing, yet some o

20 Feb 2024
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Time for change written in sand on a beach

The title learning disability nurse has been used since the 1990s, but some feel the field

05 Feb 2024
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Images of several human heads in profile symbolising changes – a ladder is propped against one of them and next to it is a small figure representing a nurse with a conversation bubble coming from her mouth

Jonathan Beebee asks whether the profession needs a more contemporary title to reflect cha

01 Feb 2024
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Car park pay machine and pay-and-display signs in a hospital car park – hospital nurses face charges and fines for parking at work

Using nurses as cash cows for driving to work, and worse, hitting them with fines if they

16 Jan 2024
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A book entitled Euthanasia with weighing scales beneath the title, next to a gavel with a folder of documents just above them

In future people with learning disabilities could be granted euthanasia requests too easil

04 Jan 2024
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New rules to prevent overseas staff bringing family to the UK send a hostile message to wo

03 Jan 2024
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Health passports were designed to address health inequalities for autistic people and help

20 Dec 2023
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Experiences that nurses have as patients themselves can inform their practice as well as h

06 Dec 2023
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An accusation about my nursing practice blighted my life as well as my career, but I suffe

28 Nov 2023
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Recent reports on learning disability care are hard-hitting but do offer support for nurse

24 Nov 2023

Nurses at every level need assurance complaints will be dealt with – which is why system-wi

21 Nov 2023

Avoiding the subject of death can rob people with a learning disability of a chance to grie

09 Nov 2023

Tourette’s may present challenges in a clinical role, but can also enhance empathy with pat

08 Nov 2023

How two learning disability and autism specialist nurses used the RCN's Nursing Workforce S

19 Oct 2023

Nurse employers must not pressurise staff to turn up for work if they experience adverse re

18 Oct 2023

Nurses working in hierarchical hospital environments can find it challenging to raise conce

17 Oct 2023

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