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

NU4D01 -Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Disability Nursing (5 ECTS)

Learning Outcomes

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

• Critically analyse current issues in Intellectual Disability in the context of Irish political, economic and societal trends.
  
• Explore and analyse advances in Intellectual Disability Nursing practice.
  
• Evaluate advances in Intellectual Disability Nursing practice.

Module Learning Aims

This module aims to enable the student to examine, critically analyse and develop his /her practice in the
context of current developments in Intellectual Disability Nursing.

Contemporary issues in Intellectual Disability and Advanced Nursing Practice in Intellectual Disabilities
Nursing:

• Introduction and Autism (5)
  
• Dementia care (5)
  
• Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disability (5)
  
• Human Rights and People with an Intellectual Disability (5)

Recommended Reading List

Essential Reading

• Freire P. (1996) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Penguin Books, London.
• Jukes J. & Aldridge J. (2007) Person-centred Practices – A holistic and integrated approach. Quay Books, London.
  
• Pawlyn J & Carnaby S. (2009). Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities - nursing complex needs. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
  
• Sobrino J. (2008) The Eye of the Needle: No Salvation Outside the Poor - A Utopian-Prophetic Essay. Darton, Longman and Todd, London.
  
• Walsh N.P. & Gash, H. (eds) (2004) Lives and Times: Practice, Policy and People with Disabilities. Rathdown Press, Bray.
  

Recommended Reading

• Herr S., Gostin L. & Hongju Koh H. (2003) The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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