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How to get informed consent right

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

02 Apr 2024
Unsocial shifts and rotas: what’s your breaking point?

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

19 Mar 2024
Our professional inferiority complex: why you’re never ‘just’ a nurse

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

20 Feb 2024
Is it time to retire the title learning disability nurse?

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

05 Feb 2024
Is the title learning disability nurse still fit for purpose?

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

01 Feb 2024
Hospital car parking: who exactly is making a profit from all those charges and fines?

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

16 Jan 2024
Why we need to think about assisted dying and people with learning disabilities

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

04 Jan 2024
Cruel curbs on migrant care workers’ lives are at odds with British values

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

03 Jan 2024
Do autism health passports actually help nurses and patients in practice?

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

20 Dec 2023
How my disability made me a better, braver nurse

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

06 Dec 2023
Patient’s clinical negligence complaint left me broken and isolated by misplaced shame

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

28 Nov 2023
What would you put in an election manifesto for future learning disability nursing?

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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