News update from the Nurse Adviser

Published: 17 October 2011

News update from the RCN Adviser - Ann Norman

Learning Disability nursing students:

The RCN has placed high priority on capturing the views of nursing students who are about to begin the 3rd year of their studies into LD nursing. During August and September 2011 calls for expressions of interest in participating were sent and we are delighted that a good number of you have from all corners of the U.K.

During the autumn we will be sending out a short series of questions within a survey to gather views and repeating this at 6 monthly intervals. We hope that the data we collect will be invaluable in helping us to better understand how and why nurses choose LD nursing, what their experiences are and what the reality of their first permanent employment is in the future.

The Image and Reality of Learning Disability Nursing:

We are very excited to have successfully bid for RCN resources to develop a DVD resource which will illustrate both the positive image and reality of LD nursing. We hope to capture the diverse roles that LD nurses have, in a broad range of areas, together with the views of carers and service users for the positive impact that LD nurses offer.

We hope to launch our resource during RCN Congress 2012 and in the coming few months will be working with an appointed production team, with members and with other stakeholders.

For more information please contact: ann.norman@rcn.org.uk