General hospital care for people with learning disabilities
By: Lynn Hannon, Julie Clift
Contributors: Clift, Julie
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781405185639
Subjects: Learning disabilities; Learning disabled; Hospital care; Nursing; Learning Disorders; Hospitalization
Description: "This book will provide nurses working in acute settings with a comprehensive resource for caring for people with a learning disability. The first chapter explores the nature of learning disability and highlights the specific health care needs of people with a learning disability. It summarises the current evidence-base, considers the key factors that influence the healthcare process, and stresses the importance of person-centred approaches. The book then takes the reader through the process of healthcare, through pre-admission assessment, care planning, intervention and treatment, liaison and discharge planning, highlighting key areas of healthcare need at each stage. This is followed by chapters on the key aspects of Communication, Understanding Behaviour, and the often difficult area of Consent. The book finishes with a chapter exploring the ethical and political aspects of care, the changing face of health services, interdisciplinary approaches, potential new roles and services that could be developed, and also highlights areas for future research.The book is relevant to the care of both children and adults with a learning disability and case vignettes are used throughout to illustrate situations. The book also includes reference to a research project looking at pre-admission assessment for people with a learning disability conducted by one of the authors" --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Understanding Learning Disability. Definitions and causes of a learning disability; title: How to establish if your patient has a learning disability; title: Perceptions and attitudes towards people with a learning disability; title: Health needs of people with a learning disability; title: Introduction to person-centered approaches. Chapter 2. The Process of Healthcare. The Patient Journey; title: Pre-admission; title: Care planning and developing care pathways; title: Intervention and treatment; title: Liaison and Discharge Planning. Chapter 3. Communication. What is communication?; title: Models of communication - verbal and non-verbal; title: Developing relationships with people with a learning disability; title: Communicating with people with a learning disability; title: Tools to aid communication; title: Helping people with learning disabilities to make choices; title: Communicating with family and careers. Chapter 4. Understanding Behaviour. What do we mean when we say a person displays challenging behaviour? What could different behaviours mean?; title: How hospital admission can affect individual behaviour and ways of overcoming this; title: How to respond to behaviour in health care situations; title: The use of behavioural indicators in the assessment of pain; title: Risk assessment. Chapter 5. Consent. What do we mean by consent?; title: Ethical decision making; title: The law on consent and capacity to consent (In England and Wales); title: Defining consent; title: Obtaining consent; title: Advocacy and empowerment; title: Emergency situations; title: What to do when consent is refused; title: Record keeping. Chapter 6. Ethical and Political Aspects of Care. Healthcare ethics and professional accountability; title: Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults; title: Cost; title: Values and beliefs; title: Political issues affecting service provision in both learning disability and secondary care services; title: Interdisciplinary approaches and partnership working; title: Where do we go from here?