Understanding dyslexia and nurse education in the clinical setting.

Clinical practice and dyslexia is becoming an important topic with the introduction of disability legislation and changes in nursing school entrance requirements. This paper considers the issues surrounding nursing and dyslexia, drawing on the available evidence. Firstly, the strengths dyslexics can bring to nursing are considered, along with difficulties they can experience, although the evidence is limited, with papers being anecdotal or speculative at times.

Randomised controlled trial to compare GP-run orthopaedic clinics based in hospital outpatient departments and general practices.

Background: To reduce outpatient waiting times, a growing number of outpatient clinics for selected groups of patients are being provided by GPs with special interests (GPwSIs).

Aim: To determine whether there are differences in patient satisfaction or clinical outcome among patients attending orthopaedic clinics provided by GPwSIs in hospital or community settings.

Design Of Study: Randomised controlled trial.

Guidelines to the United Kingdom Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) 2001 with regard to nurse education and dyslexia.

This paper concerns the impact of disability legislation on nurse education, nurse educators and student nurses, in relation to academic work and clinical placement, with regard to dyslexia. The two United Kingdom acts considered are the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), 1995 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA), 2001, which is an amendment to the DDA. The paper examines and defines the main points of the acts, such as discrimination; less favourable treatment and its justification; reasonable adjustments; making adjustments in advance; disclosure and confidentiality requests; substantial disadvantage; current systems and regulations and concludes by raising issues which require clarification.