Meeting the challenge of caring for an ageing population in Ireland

December 2010 Learning Disability Practice

As the number of people growing old with learning disabilities rises the need for a dedicated clinical nurse  specialist role is becoming imperative, argue Maria Caples and colleagues

The age profile of Irish people with a learning disability has changed significantly prompting a call for the development of the role of the gerontological clinical nurse specialist. The authors argue the role  would bring much-needed expertise to support families and carers and to advocate for individuals
accessing healthcare services.


Maria Caples, lecturer, Lynne Marsh, branch leader (BSc Learning disability), Caroline Dalton, lecturer, and Elaine Drummond, lecturer. All at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland.

N.B. Elaine Drummond contributed to this article. An obituary for Elaine was also published in the December print edition of LDP.. 

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The site, which offers hundreds of practical tips for supporting people with learning disabilities, has been inundated with contributions from parents on everything from brushing teeth to coping with challenging behaviour. Now the Netbuddy team wants to hear from professionals who can offer advice in areas such as nutrition, communication, health and hygiene, toilet training, feeding tubes, sensory therapy ... and more 

Positive Goals for Positive Behavioural Support

Interventions to improve the quality of life for people for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges

Peter Fox and Eric Emerson

This resource is designed to aid the selection and evaluation of appropriate outcomes of intervention for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges services. It focuses on a range of potential outcomes, enabling the people involved to select those which are relevant, then to evaluate progress towards achieving those outcomes. Crucially, it looks at the personal and social consequences of the person's challenging behaviour and the effect of interventions on these quality of life factors, rather than simply focusing on attempting to reduce the challenging behaviour itself.

Content includes:
* Introduction
* Positive goals and positive behavioral support (PBS)
* Development of positive goals
* How to use positive goals

Positive Goals is designed to act as an addition to existing assessment and intervention processes and documentation, and can be adapted to suit individual circumstances.

Vital information for: carers, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, behaviour therapists, community learning disability nurses, social workers, care managers, members of community learning disability teams and members of challenging behaviour teams.

Format: ringbound resource with CD-rom containing video clips and photo stories (approx 80pp)

Frontline Care in Irish Intellectual Disability Services - The Contribution of Nurses and Non-Nurse Care Staff

Just in case you missed this report when it was first published .....contact me for a copy of the full text.

Frontline Care in Irish Intellectual Disability Services: The Contribution of Nurses and Non-Nurse Care Staff
Sheerin, Fintan; McConkey, Roy; SHEERIN, FINTAN
The ongoing development of generic intellectual disability services in Ireland, driven by a policy of inclusion and normalisation, has posed significant challenges to the interdisciplinary team, with the creation of new frontline carer roles not linked to any particular profession. It is within this context that attention has been focused on the appropriateness of nursing to frontline caring in intellectual disability service provision. The separation of caring and nursing posts that is now evident within many residential services suggests that decisions have already been made regarding the appropriateness of nursing within particular settings. These decisions have, however, been made in the absence of any real attempt to delineate the contribution of nursing to frontline caring in Ireland. This study is the first of its type in Ireland and seeks to set out the unique interventional contribution of nursing and non-nurse caring within frontline intellectual disability services. PUBLISHED
Keyword(s):	Intellectual Disability; Nursing; Frontline caring; Social care
Publication Date:	2009
Type:	Journal article
Peer-Reviewed:	Unknown
Language(s):	English
Institution:	Trinity College Dublin
Publisher(s):	Sage Publications
File Format(s):	other; application/msword

Challenging Behaviour, Person Centred Services

NHS Learning Disabilties  Evidence Bulletin. Nov 2010.

Toolkit to Support Nurse and Midwife Clinical Competency Determination and Competency Development Planning

Development and Evaluation of a Toolkit to Support Nurse and Midwife Clinical Competency Determination and Competency Development Planning …

The National Council is pleased to present a Toolkit to Support Nurse and Midwife Clinical Competency Determination and Competency Development Planning  The National Council commissioned the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College, Dublin, through an open tender process to develop and test a toolkit to assist service managers, nurse and midwife managers and nurses and midwives in clinical competency determination and competency development planning. The research team worked in partnership with a clinical team and a National Council steering committee to develop the toolkit. The development of the toolkit was informed by a literature review, examination of grey literature and piloting of a toolkit. It built upon current competency frameworks for nurses’ and midwives’ and documents published by the National Council. The final piloted toolkit includes information on: Competency determination for service need, Identifying and writing clinical competencies for practice, Competency development planning and assessment and Competence frameworks in Nursing and Midwifery. This toolkit will be published in tandem with a full report titled: The Development and Evaluation of a toolkit to Support Nurse and Midwife Clinical Competency Determination and Competency Development Planning. The report will be available to download from our website in January 2011 and hard copies of the Toolkit will be available late January 2011. The report details the process involved in developing the toolkit and we would advise anyone who wants to learn more about competency development planning and the methodology used in developing the toolkit to read it. It is important to note that this toolkit is not intended to form any mandatory update for registration.

Intellectual Disabilty and Ill Health

Available to borrow - contact Sheila Ext. 3204

Intellectual Disability and Ill Health
A Review of the Evidence

Edited by Jean O'Hara

Edited by Jane McCarthy
King's College London

Edited by Nick Bouras
King's College London

Print Publication Year: 2010 
Online Publication Date: August 2010

Online ISBN: 9780511770715 
Paperback ISBN: 9780521728898

Working with People with Learning Disabilities - Theory & Practice

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Available to borrow - contact Sheila Ext. 3204.

David Thomas and Honor Woods

Paperback: £22.99 / $39.95 add to cart

2003, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-973-8, BIC 2: JKSN

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The authors of this guide bring together the relevant theory for social workers, nurses, teachers and others working with people with learning disabilities. Using jargon-free explanations and case examples they provide the theoretical understanding needed to inform good practice and help to improve the quality of life of the person with a learning disability. They discuss both psychological and practical theories, including:

cognitive and behavioural approaches

systems approach

task centred approach

role theory.

Emphasising empowerment and inclusion of those with learning disabilities, they relate theory to issues such as loss and bereavement, sexuality and stigma. They also give a guide for practitioners on social policy and legislation and advise on crisis intervention, advocacy and joint agency work, making this an extremely useful resource for anyone working with people with learning difficulties.

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