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Nursing guide for supporting people with learning disabilities
Find a range of topics on how to support people with learning disabilities to access high-quality health care and regular screening. From making reasonable adjustments to enhancing communication skills and understanding mental capacity, we signpost you to the most up-to-date available resources.
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Mental health support for young people: promoting choice, improving access
This RCN Mental Health Forum resource was undertaken in collaboration with MIND. The purpose of this resource is to help nurses understand and promote choice in how children and young people can access mental health services.
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Understanding mental health
Poor mental health can affect day-to-day functioning, relationships, physical health, and the ability to enjoy life. Learn more about how your role as a nurse can help promote good mental health and how to support patients who may have a mental illness.
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Skin health
Read this resource to build your knowledge and understanding of the importance of hand hygiene and hand care when it comes to reducing the spread of infection and maintaining healthy skin.
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Patient Specific Directions and Patient Group Directions
Learn more about Patient Specific Directions (PSD), which is a written instruction signed by a prescriber for medicines to be supplied and/or administered to a named patient after being assessed.
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Learning disabilities
A guide to learning disabilities and their associated presentations, conditions and communication difficulties, including an account of the care received by a person with a learning disability.
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Medicine supply and administration
Access this resource to find out more about good medicines management (also described as ‘medicines optimization’), including the administration of medicines and prescribing and supporting people to take their medicines correctly.
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Parity of esteem
Increase your knowledge about the need to value mental health equally to physical health. Find out what you can do to make parity a reality and how the RCN can support your awareness and understanding of people’s physical and mental health needs.
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Prescribing in pregnancy
As nursing practice advances to encompass prescribing, this resource offers signposting to further information about the principles of good practice when caring for and prescribing medication to pregnant and postnatal women.
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Neuromuscular disorders
Learn more about neuromuscular disorders (NMD) and the range of conditions that impair the functioning of the muscles. Read about symptoms that may present themselves, diagnosis and management, as well as the role of the nurse in in NMD care.
