title: The role of community nurses for people with learning disabilities: working with people who challenge.
abstract: The locus of care for people with learning disabilities has transferred from institutional to community-based services. Increasingly people who have learning disabilities and additional challenging behaviours live in community settings. Spearheading the care for these people are community nurses for people with learning disabilities. This study aimed to explicate the role of these nurses in their day-to-day work with people who challenge. Using grounded theory methodology, 22 nurses were selected by theoretical sampling and interviewed. An analytical story and theoretical framework that emerged from the grounded data is presented. It is suggested that this framework has utility for practice.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, UK. je.slevin@ulst.ac.uk
authors.forename: Eamonn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Slevin
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sines
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010348:Patient Care Team