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Profound intellectual and multiple disabilities : nursing complex needs

By: Pawlyn, Jillian.
Contributor(s): Carnaby, Steven.
Publisher: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2009Description: xiii, 362 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781405151702.Subject(s): PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL AND MULTIPLE DISABILITIES (PIMD) | QUALITY OF LIFE | EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE | NURSING | NEEDS | COMPLEX NEEDS | REHABILITATION
Contents:
SECTION 1: Assessing complex needs 1. Introduction / Jillian Pawlyn, Steven Carnaby 2. Quality of life : people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Katja Petry, Bea Maes 3. Supporting a person with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities to maintain their health : a parent carers and support team experience / Jan Roast, Katie Hickson, Sarah King 4. Making sense of communication / Karen Bunning 5. Promoting the emotional well-being of people with profound and multiple intellectual disabilities : a holistic approach through intensive interaction / Melanie Nind 6. Achieving and maintaining health / Jillian Pawlyn 7. Clinical assessment of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Steven Carnaby SECTION 2: Meeting complex needs 8. Mental health problems and people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Steven Carnaby 9. Epilepsy : implications for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Mary Codling, Nicky MacDonald 10. 'Sight is might' ; vision and vision impairment in people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Gill Levy 11. Hearing and aural health / Laura Waite 12. Respiratory health of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Colin Wallis 13. Dental care and oral health / Pauline Watt-Smith 14. Dysphagia and people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Hannah Crawford 15. Nutrition, hydration and weight / Sian Burton, Susan Cox, Sue M Sandham 16. Continence / Jillian Pawlyn, Shirley Budd 17. Mobility, posture and comfort / Sarah Hill, Liz Goldsmith 18. Profound intellectual and multiple disabilities : meeting complex needs through complex means / Steven Carnaby, Jillian Pawlyn
Summary: "Divided into two sections... [this book] first looks at assessing complex needs, exploring topics such as communication, maintaining health and quality of life. Part two then discusses meeting complex needs, looking at topics such as mental health problems, epilepsy, vision impairment, aural health, respiratory health, nutrition and dysphagia." - BOOK JACKET
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"Divided into two sections... [this book] first looks at assessing complex needs, exploring topics such as communication, maintaining health and quality of life. Part two then discusses meeting complex needs, looking at topics such as mental health problems, epilepsy, vision impairment, aural health, respiratory health, nutrition and dysphagia." - BOOK JACKET

SECTION 1: Assessing complex needs
1. Introduction / Jillian Pawlyn, Steven Carnaby
2. Quality of life : people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Katja Petry, Bea Maes
3. Supporting a person with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities to maintain their health : a parent carers and support team experience / Jan Roast, Katie Hickson, Sarah King
4. Making sense of communication / Karen Bunning
5. Promoting the emotional well-being of people with profound and multiple intellectual disabilities : a holistic approach through intensive interaction / Melanie Nind
6. Achieving and maintaining health / Jillian Pawlyn
7. Clinical assessment of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Steven Carnaby
SECTION 2: Meeting complex needs
8. Mental health problems and people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Steven Carnaby
9. Epilepsy : implications for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Mary Codling, Nicky MacDonald
10. 'Sight is might' ; vision and vision impairment in people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Gill Levy
11. Hearing and aural health / Laura Waite
12. Respiratory health of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Colin Wallis
13. Dental care and oral health / Pauline Watt-Smith
14. Dysphagia and people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities / Hannah Crawford
15. Nutrition, hydration and weight / Sian Burton, Susan Cox, Sue M Sandham
16. Continence / Jillian Pawlyn, Shirley Budd
17. Mobility, posture and comfort / Sarah Hill, Liz Goldsmith
18. Profound intellectual and multiple disabilities : meeting complex needs through complex means / Steven Carnaby, Jillian Pawlyn

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This is the best book I have yet to read on the subject of PIMB. The content is comprehensive and up to date and contains relevant information across disciplines. Heartily recommended.

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Truly the best book on the subject I have come across to date! Annetta Bouius

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So useful I am going to buy it!!

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