4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur)mIntellectual Disability Nursing

NU1D03 -Approaches to Nursing Practice 1 (5 ECTS)

Learning Outcomes

Following completion of this module the student should be able to:

• Describe the development of care approaches in intellectual disability and explain how intellectual disability nursing has evolved into its current form
  
• Describe the role of the Registered Nurse in Intellectual disability (RNID) within the context of a multi disciplinary team
  
• Demonstrate the ability to safely engage in practical and therapeutic person centred nursing care and procedures applied to caring for a person with an intellectual disability
  
• Explore consent and the legal, ethical and administrative issues in intellectual disability nursing
  
• Describe the relevance of clinical speech and language therapeutic techniques to intellectual disability and provide an outline of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties for the person with an intellectual disability.

Module Learning Aims

The aim of this module is to explore the development of approaches to care and support for people with
an intellectual disability. The purpose is to frame the context for nursing care. The module also
introduces the student to safe and effective principles of care that may be applied in the practice setting.
In addition, the student is introduced to speech and language therapy techniques applied to a person
with an intellectual disability.

Recommended Reading List

Essential Reading

• Dougherty, L., & Lister, S. (Eds.). (2015) The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures (9th edn.). Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
  
• Pawlyn J. & Carnaby S. (2009) Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Nursing Complex Needs,Wiley Blackwell, UK.
  
• Gates B. & Mafuba K. (2015) Learning Disability Nursing: Modern Day Practice. CRC Press, UK.
  

Recommended Reading

• Carnaby S. & Cambridge P. (2006) Intimate and Personal Care with People with Learning Disabilities, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London.
  
• Dudek S. (2007) Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins: London.
  
• Gates B. (2006) Care Planning and Delivery in Intellectual Disability Nursing. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford.
  
• Robins J. (2000) Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland in the Twentieth Century. An Bord Altranais: Dublin.
  

* Additional readings will be given for each unit of learning.