The impact of intellectual disability nurse specialists in the United Kingdom and Eire Ireland: An integrative review

Abstract

People with intellectual disability have been identified as the most vulnerable and disadvantaged cohort in society, reliant on an underskilled medical workforce and with poor access to health services

Registered nurses' awareness and implementation of reasonable adjustments for people with intellectual disability and/or autism

“…Nevertheless, registered nurses who worked in acute adult contexts, including the emergency department and the intensive care unit, and community/primary contexts reported the least amount of awareness of reasonable adjustments, pointing to greater educational deficits for this cohort. By contrast, greater self‐reported familiarity was from registered nurses working in paediatrics or with people with ID and/or ASD and these findings are supported by other studies where registered nurses in these speciality areas report greater confidence navigating the complexity of issues, both at the individual and system levels (Bur, Missen & Cooper, 2021; Lewis, Wilson, Jaques, O'Reilly, & Wiese, 2019; Wilson, Wiese, Lewis, Jaques, & O'Reilly, 2019). These complex issues cover a range of things, but perhaps most importantly are adjustments to communication to assist with the vital process of consent and decision making that are so important to self‐determination in health care (Stancliffe et al, 2020).…”

Supporting the needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities 1 year into the COVID‐19 pandemic: An international, mixed methods study of nurses' perspectives

“…A few such models currently exist. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, IDD nursing education includes preregistration and postgraduate nursing specialty programs, with nurses being the only health profession specifically educated in IDD (Bur et al, 2020 ). The learning disability liaison role in the United Kingdom provides IDD nursing specialist support to people with IDD, their supporters, and health care professionals in the general hospital setting (Brown et al, 2012 ).…”

Nature and extent of intellectual disability nursing research in Ireland: a scoping review to inform health and health service research

“…17 18 From this review, it is Historically, young people have been cared for in residential congregated care settings, however, this is no longer the case as the current focus is care within the family. 30 In tandem with this intellectual disability nursing is evolving into the community and the family home, necessitating a need to focus on the future in line with service provision where the focus is no longer solely within congregated settings. 7 This review highlights that the literature on the family experience of caring for and living with an individual with intellectual disability is scarce, only seven papers in this review focus on the experience of caring in the family home from the perspective of family members.…”