Concern over declining nurse numbers threatens the future of learning disability nursing, urging immediate intervention.
The potential collapse of learning disability as a field of nursing practice is shaping too much of the narrative about the future of the profession and yet not enough to save it. Learning Disability Practice editor Christine Walker recently shared a reminder of the specialty’s future, which will be barren if action to address the decline in learning disability nurse numbers is slow or not taken.
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