Evaluating a visual communications tool to explore risk and safety with nurses and patients within an intellectual disability forensic service: A pilot study.

Background: Issues of risk and safety can be challenging to discuss with forensic patients with an intellectual disability. Talking Mats is a visual communication tool that facilitates therapeutic conversations.

Method: A pilot study, adopting an ethnographic approach, was used to evaluate Talking Mats.

Risk for intellectual disability populations in inpatient forensic settings in the United Kingdom: A literature review.

Background: People with an intellectual disability who commit a criminal offence can be detained, by a court, in a forensic inpatient facility. There is limited understanding of how inpatients with an intellectual disability and their nurses navigate risk in U.K.

Case study analysis of end of life care development in the Chinese cultural context of Macao: a social movement perspective.

Background: The modern hospice movement is often recognised as a social movement. However, such understanding is primarily based on historic reflection and this approach has lacked theoretical exploration. There is a lack of systematic examination of the modern hospice movement by way of social movement theories.

Tensions in dementia care in China: An interpretative phenomenological study from Shandong province.

Aims: The study aims to analyse the tensions and the challenges of dementia care that are experienced by people with dementia and their family caregivers in China.

Background: China has the largest dementia population in the world; however, dementia care services and related support services are still developing. Caring for a person with dementia is very challenging, as evidenced by many studies.

Care home nursing: Co-creating curricular content with student nurses.

Background: Meeting the complex care needs of an ageing population is a global issue and long term care settings, such as care homes, play an essential role. However, there is a crisis in the recruitment of registered nurses within care homes. Higher educational institutions have a critical part to play in addressing the crisis in recruitment in care homes and it is argued that student nurses can have a significant role to play in co-creating curricular content responsive to population need.