
Learning Disability Nursing: A Small Profession With Growing Demand
One of the four fields of nursing, and consistently the smallest. What learning disability nurses do, why demand keeps rising, and how to train.
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In-depth, independent stories and context on working in UK health and social care — written by our editors and free to read. 25 articles and counting.

One of the four fields of nursing, and consistently the smallest. What learning disability nurses do, why demand keeps rising, and how to train.

Children's nursing is a separate field of the register with its own degree. What the work involves, where the jobs are, and what people find hardest about it.

Immunisations, chronic disease clinics, wound care, cervical screening and health promotion, often in the same morning. What practice nursing involves and how to move into it.

Community nursing has its own qualifications, its own pressures and a level of independence hospital roles rarely offer. What the career path looks like.

Perioperative nursing is a distinct world with its own roles, language and rhythm. What scrub, circulating and recovery nurses do, and how to get into theatres.

What mental health nursing involves in the UK, why interest in the specialty has grown, and the main training and entry routes into the profession.
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