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Emergency and urgent hospital-based care

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posted on 2023-06-08, 20:50 authored by Ian Noonan, Karen LowtonKaren Lowton
This chapter addresses the needs of people with intellectual impairment including learning disability, cognitive impairment, and brain injury, when attending hospital in emergency and unplanned situations. Throughout the focus will be on the client and how healthcare professionals can improve what is potentially a very distressing experience for them. Staff who feel unprepared for working with clients with intellectual impairment can also be distressed by the diffi culties in assessing and managing someone who is injured, in pain, and frightened - particularly when the client is expressing this in ways that may appear confused or are problematic to assess. Therefore recommendations will be made at intrapersonal, interpersonal and organizational levels. © 2008 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Learning Disability and Other Intellectual Impairments: Meeting Needs Throughout Health Services

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Page range

117-138

Pages

117.0

Book title

Learning Disability and Other Intellectual Impairments: Meeting Needs Throughout Health Services

Place of publication

West Sussex

ISBN

9780470034712

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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Editors

Louise Clark, Peter Griffiths

Legacy Posted Date

2015-05-21

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