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Explaining cancer to people with learning disabilities

Determine their understanding, prioritise information needed and convey it in accessible language 

13 Nov 2025
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Linking the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing to person-centred care and the value of social prescribing

29 Jul 2025
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Exploring the care work and personal need narratives of older carers

Nurses need to understand how care work is conceived within the home and what needs then arise

25 Jun 2025
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Practical ways to build reflections so they have a strategic purpose in learning disability care

Helping learning disability nurses extend reflection beyond individual episodes of care

18 Jun 2025
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Using reflection to address challenges in learning disability nursing

A case study suggests collaborative reflective practice can mitigate effects of some of the challenges

23 Apr 2025
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Exploring self-care health-related beliefs, values and attitudes with older patients

Using a reflective framework may help patients consider change or a new way of self-care

04 Dec 2024
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Developing a practice template for communicating with families of people with learning disabilities

Developing practice templates can help outline care standards and develop a rapport with families

14 Aug 2024
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Using reflective practice to enhance the care of people with learning disabilities

An overview of reflective practice using a case study of a mother’s evaluation of her son's care

15 May 2024
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 Understanding and investigating potential problematic behaviour towards colleagues

Nurse managers should adopt a stepped exploratory approach using a sensitive exploratory process

19 Jan 2024
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Long term conditions: three ways to give patients the confidence to self-care

Teaching self-care can be woven into the routine conversations nurses have with patients

06 Sep 2022
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Exploring the use of service-user narratives to improve care

Service-user narratives can support people with learning disabilities to access care

24 Aug 2022
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Ethical challenges in delivering person-centred care

Exploring normative ethics and teleological ethics and how they are applied in everyday care

26 Feb 2020

How practical methods of listening and speaking can improve patients’ outcomes and experience

06 Jan 2020

In healthcare clearly formulated arguments can mean nurses’ efforts are directed effectively

26 Nov 2019

Part 3 of our series explores the causes of schizophrenia and how it can lead to self-neglect

04 Sep 2019

How to provide effective support to enhance their skills, knowledge and self-confidence

10 Jun 2019
02 Apr 2019
19 Dec 2018