An Essential Guide to Caring for People With a Learning Disability and Autistic People (eBook, PDF)

Enabling a Cross-Field Approach
Redaktion: Jones, Helen; Salmon, Samantha; Page, Andrea

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with other key health and social care professions, regardless of field, need to know about caring for people with a learning disability and autism. It outlines some of the key challenges faced by people with a learning disability and autism, and ways in which good care can improve their quality of life. People with a learning disability and autism are more likely to need support with aspects of everyday life, be marginalised within society, including within health and social care, and die younger than the rest of the population. They are also more likely to have additional communication needs, sensory processing difficulties and require significant support to access healthcare as well as other opportunities across the course of their lives.

This innovative text highlights the core knowledge that all health and social care professionals need and emphasises the benefits of learning across different fields of practice. It presents information about common conditions, key skills, and where a standard approach may need to be changed when caring for a person with a learning disability and autistic people. It demystifies key issues and commonly misunderstood concepts and topics including distressed behaviours, consent and reasonable adjustments. The book also focuses on addressing health inequalities, improving communication, understanding mental capacity and presents case studies throughout to illustrate how care can and should be delivered.

Written for all who aspire to understand the needs of these individuals and to deliver care as effectively as possible, this collaborative text brings together the voices of services users and their families and carers, with those of nurses, other health professionals, lecturers, and nursing students and apprentices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040343135
• Artikelnr.: 73970078

Autorenporträt

Helen Jones is a registered nurse for people with a learning disability and currently Head of Learning Disability and Autism at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust. Andrea Page is a registered nurse for people with a learning disability and Associate Professor at Birmingham City University. Samantha Salmon is a registered nurse for people with a learning disability and Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1 - Why have we written this book?
1 The People who inspired this book
2 The Power of Words
Why Terminology Is Important
3 The Learning Disability Nursing Student and Apprentice Voice
4 About me and how I became Chief Executive of All Wales People First
5 Learning from Lives and Deaths of People with Learning Disability and Autistic People
Section 2: Lived Experiences and professional insights: understanding care and treatment for people with learning disabilities and autistic people
6 Inclusive Communication: Creating Positive Outcomes - A Mother's Lived Experience
7 Autism and Learning Disabilities - Linda Woodcock
8 Nursing Observations and people with a learning disability: considerations
9 Protection of Body Shape
10 Considerations for delivery of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and choking management to people with profound and multiple learning disability and wheelchair users
11 Clinical holding
12 The importance of equity and accessibility: radiotherapy treatment for people with cancer and learning disability
13 Managing distressed behaviours in health care settings: applying low arousal approaches
14 Conditions that all nurses and allied health professionals need to be aware of in people with learning disabilities
15 Epilepsy and individuals with a learning disability
16 Learning Disabilities and Stroke
17 The Mental Capacity Act and Consent
18 Transforming Care and mental health support for people with a learning disability
19 An Exploration of the Equality Act and Making Reasonable Adjustments
20 Undercover Documentaries: An Insider View
Section 3 Responding to Inequality and Inequity
21 - Introduction - We are nursing in an imperfect world
22 - We are nursing in an imperfect world - reflections on the importance of staffing and skill mix
23 - Medication and diet in individuals with a learning disability
24 - Mental Capacity
Communication and Advocacy for People living with learning disabilities
25 - A reflection on communication and the use of hospital passports within an acute hospital setting
Section 4 - Conclusion
26 - The Last Word for now...