The Global Intellectual Disability Nursing Research Collaboratory: Forming an international transformational nursing network.

Aim: This paper explains how we created the Global Intellectual Disability Nurse Research Collaboratory (GIDNRC), a transformative network. The GIDNRC aims to make improvements in the understanding, research, policy, clinical care, and support provided to people with an intellectual disability.

Background: In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) called upon healthcare leaders internationally to take actions to promote more equal healthcare for disabled persons.

Planning for research impact.

Background: Several drivers are currently leading to greater emphasis of the importance of ensuring research has impact. Nursing research aims to improve patient care, safety and well-being, so it might be assumed results with the potential to effect such changes would automatically have an impact on clinical practice. However, experience suggests this is not the case and careful attention is needed for there to be an impact.

Hospital passports, patient safety and person-centred care: A review of documents currently used for people with intellectual disabilities in the UK.

Aims And Objectives: To review hospital passports currently in use for people with intellectual disabilities in the UK and to make recommendations for practice.

Background: Hospital passports have been introduced internationally to address communication barriers that may limit access to appropriate health care for people with intellectual disabilities. They are viewed as promoting patient safety and person-centred care but their format may vary, they are not always used appropriately, and hence, their effectiveness may be limited.