Main description:

This new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing has been fully updated, with a greater focus on older people with learning and intellectual disabilities and mental health issues, as well as bringing all recommendations in line with current guidelines.

Since the first edition of this book was published, services for people with learning disabilities and their families have become more community-based, and the demography of the population of people with learning disabilities has changed to include many older people, and children and young adults with complex physical health needs. This handbook provides clear information for readers on practical steps that may be taken to actively engage with people who have learning disabilities, to enable
effective care in which they are involved as much as possible with decisions that affect them. This book also covers differences in legislation and social policy across the constituent countries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including changes that have been implemented since serious case reviews
into institutional abuse. An emergencies section provides key information at critical times in practice. The chapter on practice resources has been fully revised to bring together the latest tools to support nurses, complete with links for easy access.

Written by experienced practitioners who are recognised experts in their areas of speciality, the Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing is an invaluable guide for students, community and hospital based nurses, and all those who work with people with intellectual disabilities as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Contents:

1: Owen Barr, Aoife Bradley, Maria Cozens, Bob Gates, Dorothy Kupara, and Peter Oakes: The nature of intellectual disability nursing
2: Owen Barr, Helen Laverty, and John Swinton: Working with families
3: Elaine Kwiatek and Cath Valentine: Communication
4: Phil Boulter, Matt Dodwell, Bob Gates, Margaret Sowney, Mohamed Surfraz, and Laurence Taggart: Assessment
5: Aoife Bradley, Debbie Crickmore, Mary Dearing, Lynne Marsh, Philip McCallion, Mary McCarron, and Sue Read: Changes across the lifespan
6: Owen Barr, Tina Bell, Michael Brown, Rebecca Chester, Caroline Dalton O'Connor, Bob Gates, Edna O'Neill, Sue Read, Lesley Russ, and John Swinton: Physical health and wellbeing
7: Eddie Chaplin, Renee Francis, Philip McCallion, Mary McCarron, Sue Read, Laurence Taggart, and Gaynor Ward: Mental health and emotional wellbeing
8: Owen Barr, Maurice Devine, Bob Gates, Peter Griffin, Lisa Hanna-Trainor, Kirsty Henry, Victoria Jones, Elaine Kwiatek, Helen Laverty, Damian McAleer, Tanya McCance, Brendan McCormack, and Martina Meenan: Planning with people and their families
9: Jonathan Beebee, Tina Bell, Sue Colgrave, Maurice Devine, Bob Gates, Zuzana Matousova-Done, Sue Read, Mohamed Surfraz, Laurence Taggart, Cath Valentine, and Michael Wolverson: Therapeutic Interventions
10: Owen Barr, Tina Bell, Jo Bromley, Eddie Chaplin, Renee Francis, Lynne Marsh, Philip McCallion, Mary McCarron, Edna O'Neill, Sue Read, Lesley Russ, Jillian Scott, and Margaret Sowney: Accessing general health services
11: Rhona Brennan, Garvin McKnight, and Annie Norman: People with intellectual disabilities and forensic nursing
12: Phil Boulter, Maria Cozens, Matt Dodwell, Bob Gates, Lisa Hanna-Trainor, Chiedza Kudita, Dorathy Kupara, and Roy McConkey: Lifestyles and intellectual disability nursing
13: Paul Maloret and Michael Wolverson: The law
14: Owen Barr, Bob Gates, Kay Mafuba, and Duncan Mitchell: Research and intellectual disability nursing
15: Paul Keenan: National occupational standards and professional requirements
16: Owen Barr, Michael Brown, Bob Gates, Victoria Jones, and Paul Keenan: Independent regulators of care quality
17: Jill Davies, Peter Griffin, and Mohamed Surfraz: Practice resources
18: Rhona Brennan, Kirsty Henry, Neil James, Robert Jenkins, Garvin McKnight, Annie Norman, and Edna O'Neill: Emergencies