The challenges for nurses communicating with and gaining valid consent from adults with intellectual disabilities within the accident and emergency care service

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1678-1686

  Sowney, Margaret ^a   Barr, Owen ^a  

^a Magee Campus ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident and emergency nursing; Communication; Consent; Intellectual disabilities; Nurses; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL RETARDATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NORTHERN IRELAND; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 34548242660     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01642.x     Document Type: Article

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