title: A profile of learning disability nurses.
abstract: Profiling exercises provide vital data for effective and efficient deployment of resources and for monitoring the development of services. A survey, focusing solely on community nurses for people with learning disabilities in Northern Ireland, was carried out in 1992. The findings showed, among other things, a higher caseload per nurse than the UK average. While more than half the workforce had multiple qualifications there was a lack of clinical specialist training.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barr
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Parahoo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009660:Northern Ireland; D009740:Nursing Staff; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires