A round-up of RNID Role reviews and studies

A round-up of key RNID reviews and studies so far in 2012.....

Update on the Review of Undergraduate Nursing and Midwifery Degree Programmes

Information brief from meeting held on May 24 2012 click here 

Intellectual disability nursing in Ireland: Identifying its development and future 

Owen Doody owen.doody@ul.ie, Eamonn Slevin, Laurence Taggart

Abstract
As a profession, intellectual disability nursing has often come under scrutiny and been called into question. Since its inception as an individual nursing profession in 1959 in Ireland, both education and service provision philosophies have changed over time.Full Text [COPE Staff]

 Strengthening The Commitment: The Report of the UK Modernising Learning Disabilities Nursing Review
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-78045-785-7
The report aims to ensure that people with learning disabilities of all ages have access to expert Learning Disabilities Nurses and that their families and carers get the best support and care. It also seeks to make best use of Learning Disabilities Nurses throughout the entire health and social care system and improve the career image of learning disabilities nursing as a whole.
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Associated downloadable documents

Learning from the past: Setting out the future sets out six recommendations to address the education, workforce and leadership issues and the Royal College of Nursing will be working with stakeholders to take them forward.  The Chief Nursing Officers of the health departments recently announced their intention to undertake a review Modernising Learning Disability Nursing across the four countries of the United Kingdom.
Position Statement:
Learning from the past – setting out the future.  A RCN position statement on the role of the learning disability nurse (PDF, 143KB)
http://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/359359/003871.pdf