A challenge to nursing: an historical review of intellectual disability nursing in the UK and Ireland

Sweeney, John F.; Mitchell, Duncan

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02889.x

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“…The significance of the training relates primarily to the professionalising of lay staff by the St John of God religious order. As argued elsewhere, the impact of timing and the influence of the Catholic Church constitute key differences between the introduction of training of a professional workforce in the UK and Ireland (Sweeney and Mitchell 2009).…”

Section: The Role Of the Catholic Religious Orders In Postcolonial Irmentioning

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“…Despite growing expertise in the caring for people with intellectual disabilities, psychiatrists in Ireland lacked a network of colonies to consolidate their power as part of the medical profession. They were hampered, along with other disciplines of medicine, in their aspirations to be consulted on matters of health and social policy through representation on national committees (Sweeney and Mitchell 2009).…”

Section: The Role Of the Catholic Religious Orders In Postcolonial Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Attitudes of Catholic religious orders towards children and adults with an intellectual disability in postcolonial Ireland

Sweeney

2010

Nursing Inquiry

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Attitudes of Catholic religious orders towards children and adults with an intellectual disability in postcolonial Ireland The purpose of this paper is to examine the intersecting roles of Catholic religious orders and psychiatrists in the development of residential care for people with an intellectual disability in Ireland during the fifty-year period after political autonomy from the UK in 1922. The context is the postcolonial development of the country and the crucial role played by the Catholic Church through several of its religious orders in developing and staffing intellectual disability services. The paper will consider the divergent positions of church and psychiatry in the foundation and contemporary position of what was originally known as the care of people with a mental handicap nursing in the 1960s. The development of this form of nursing during the mid-twentieth century can be seen as part of a wider postcolonial response to health and social care by the newly independent Irish state. The author argues that intellectual disability nursing in Ireland has been nuanced by association with the nation's struggle for self-determination from colonial oppression through adoption of a religious identity. This conflation of education and social care combined with a specific form of Catholic nursing has left an enduring legacy on the service provision to people with an intellectual disability in contemporary Ireland.

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Section: The Role Of the Catholic Religious Orders In Postcolonial Irmentioning

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Section: The Role Of the Catholic Religious Orders In Postcolonial Irmentioning

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Attitudes of Catholic religious orders towards children and adults with an intellectual disability in postcolonial Ireland

Sweeney

2010

Nursing Inquiry

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“…From: Strengthening the commitment: The Report of the UK Modernizing Learning Disabilities Nursing Review (p. 7) inclusion in pre-registration nursing programs [ 17 ]. Closure of institutions led to the development of community IDD services teams and may have led to fragmentation of the IDD nurse's role.…”

Section: Box 1582: Learning Disabilities Nurses Remain Important In mentioning

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Nursing Education About People with Intellectual Disability. An International Perspective

Hahn

2016

Health Care for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Across the Lifespan

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Nurses have a long-standing history of providing care and services to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Nursing education, as training or in pre-licensure or pre-registration nursing programs about care of people with IDD, has a strong history with variable attention in formal nursing education programs from one country to another, and is essential to improving health equity, reducing health disparities and fostering full participation in society. In this chapter, we will explore an international perspective that includes history around nursing education about people with IDD, and current status of nursing education and implications for future nursing education about people with IDD.

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“…In the 1920s, with the founding of the Irish State, funding was limited and health services were not a financial priority (Harvey, 2007). There was continued 4 reliance on religious orders and voluntary bodies for the provision of disability services for children through residential homes and special schools (Sweeney & Mitchell, 2009). …”

Section: History Of Early Childhood Servicesmentioning

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The Progression of Early Intervention Disability Services in Ireland

Carroll

Murphy

Sixsmith

2013

Infants &Amp; Young Children

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The Republic of Ireland is an island situated in North West Europe inhabited by 4.6 million people with 2.8% aged between 0-4 years with a disability (Central Statistics Office, 2012).The Irish Government funds the Irish health services, which in turn directly and indirectly funds disability services. Education and Disability legislation have developed in parallel with an apparent increasing congruence with both moving towards a rights based approach. Today, Early Intervention disability services are delivered by both statutory and non-government agencies with wide variation and no national consistency in service provision. Some 2 components of the Developmental Systems Approach can be discerned in Irish service provision and these include: screening, access, comprehensive interdisciplinary assessment and early childhood programs. However, assessment of families, development and implementation, monitoring and outcome evaluation, and transition planning are not as identifiable. Guided by legislation and organisational restructuring, Early Intervention provision in Ireland is in a state of flux with an emphasis on developing national uniformity of family centred Early Intervention services.

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A challenge to nursing: an historical review of intellectual disability nursing in the UK and Ireland

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

Attitudes of Catholic religious orders towards children and adults with an intellectual disability in postcolonial Ireland

Attitudes of Catholic religious orders towards children and adults with an intellectual disability in postcolonial Ireland

Nursing Education About People with Intellectual Disability. An International Perspective

The Progression of Early Intervention Disability Services in Ireland

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