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Learning Disability Nursing Literature Review Examples
Reviews on health and care for people with learning disabilities, from health inequalities and annual health checks to communication and capacity.
12 examples published of 15 topics
- Peer-reviewed sources
- APA 7 reference lists
- Structured abstract in every review
- Free to read and learn from
Published Learning Disability Nursing examples
12 examples
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Communication Strategies and Augmentative Aids Used by Nurses with People with Learning Disabilities: A Scoping Review
Communication strategies literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Diagnostic Overshadowing in the Care of People with Learning Disabilities: An Integrative Review
Diagnostic overshadowing literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Uptake and Effectiveness of Annual Health Checks for People with Learning Disabilities: A Systematic Review
Annual health checks literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Health Inequalities Experienced by People with Learning Disabilities and the Role of Nursing: A Systematic Review
Health inequalities literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Nurse-Led Epilepsy Management for Adults with Learning Disabilities: A Systematic Review
Epilepsy management literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Sexual Health Education and Support for People with Learning Disabilities: A Scoping Review
Sexual health education literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Dysphagia and the Risk of Aspiration in People with Learning Disabilities: A Narrative Review
Read our narrative review on dysphagia, with search strategy, critical appraisal, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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The Experiences of Family Carers of People with Learning Disabilities: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
Family carers literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Transition From Children’s to Adult Services for Young People with Learning Disabilities: A Scoping Review
Adult services for young people: a scoping review example with key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Barriers to Accessing Cancer Screening for People with Learning Disabilities: A Systematic Review
Accessing cancer screening literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Mental Capacity, Consent, and Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities in Healthcare: An Integrative Review
Mental capacity literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Positive Behaviour Support in the Management of Challenging Behaviour in People with Learning Disabilities: A Systematic Review
Positive behaviour support literature review example covering search strategy, key findings and implications for learning disability nursing practice.
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Coming soon in Learning Disability Nursing 3 topics
- Premature and Avoidable Mortality in People with Learning Disabilities
- Supported Living and Quality of Life Among Adults with Learning Disabilities
- Recognition and Assessment of Pain in Non-Verbal Patients with Learning Disabilities
About Learning Disability Nursing Literature Reviews
- Main focus: Learning disability nursing reviews address the avoidable health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities and how nurses can reduce them.
- Typical topics: Annual health checks, communication strategies, diagnostic overshadowing, epilepsy, dysphagia, mental capacity and access to screening.
- Reasonable adjustments: Many reviews examine how services adapt care, information and environments so people can take part in decisions about their health.
- Evidence and databases: The evidence base is smaller and more varied, so reviews often include grey literature such as LeDeR reports alongside CINAHL and PsycINFO.
- What to learn from them: See how to justify a wider search and how to appraise qualitative and service-evaluation evidence fairly.
Writing Your Own Learning Disability Nursing Literature Review
- Start with a focused question: Narrow your topic to one population, intervention or experience and frame it with PICO, PEO or PCC. A focused question keeps the search manageable and makes your inclusion criteria easy to justify.
- Plan a reproducible search: Combine subject headings and keywords with Boolean operators across at least two or three relevant databases, and record the date of each search and the number of results. Markers expect enough detail for someone else to repeat it.
- Appraise every included study: Use a recognised tool such as CASP, JBI or MMAT to judge each study’s quality, and explain how strengths and weaknesses affect the confidence you place in the findings.
- Synthesise into themes: Group findings by what they reveal about your question, compare where studies agree or disagree, and explain why. Avoid summarising one study per paragraph.
- Link back to practice: Finish with clear, realistic implications for learning disability nursing practice, education or policy, and identify the gaps future research should address.
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