Duty of care for learning disability workers (Supporting the Learning Disability Worker LM Series) - Softcover

Barksby, Justine; Harper, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857256130 ISBN 13: 9780857256133

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2011

Synopsis

If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book invaluable in helping you to achieve the unit on Duty of Care. It will help you to understand how duty of care affects the people you support, their family carers, you and your employer.

The book is easy to navigate, with each chapter covering one of the learning outcomes within the unit. Each chapter begins with an example taken from real people′s stories and lots of activities, photographs and other illustrations are included throughout.

About this title

About the Author:

Justine has been a qualified learning disability nurse since 1995. Since then she has worked as a staff nurse in a learning disability service, she has been a manager of an NHS learning disability day service and also worked as a clinical nurse specialist in challenging behaviour. She is now a lecturer for the University of Nottingham, teaching student nurses. She has a qualification in higher education and is a practice teacher. Justine feels very passionate about the quality of service provision for people with learning disabilities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857256130
• ISBN 13: 9780857256133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56