How learning disability liaison nurses are transforming patient care
- Category: News
- Published on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 00:16
- Written by Super User
Specialist learning disability liaison nurse Jainab Desai is making meticulous checks of the complex arrangements to receive a tricky patient with learning disabilities, with staff of the day surgery unit at Royal Bolton hospital.
She has worked for weeks with staff, family and carers of the profoundly disabled and terrified woman (who needs a vascular procedure). This is to make sure that the patient will not freak at the entrance to the operating theatre, forcing the cancellation of the operation.
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