Building Success on Strong Foundations - PNA

Psychiatric Nurses Association PNA - <strong>Building</strong> <strong>Success</strong> on Strong FoundationsPromotion of Intellectual Disability Nursing as aCareer of Choice (October 2007 to April 2008)St Joseph’s Intellectual Disability Service, PortraneCo DublinPaul Gorman (Clinical Placement Co-ordinator)Practice DevelopmentSt Joseph’s Intellectual Disability Service, PortranePhone: 01 883 6024Email: Paul.gorman1@hse.ieThis was the first time a career in intellectual disabilitynursing had been promoted in the secondary schoolsand colleges in the Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow region.Its aim was to promote and enable the recruitment intointellectual disability nursing as a first choice careeroption.Over a six month period, a clinical placement coordinator (CPC) visited and made approximately 97presentations to over 3,000 young people regarding acareer in Intellectual Disability nursing Over the sixmonths he visited 84 schools,17 colleges of furthereducation providing Further Education & TrainingAwards Council (Fetac ) level 5 health care courses fora variety of students. He also visited 7 services someof whom were running Fetac courses through theircentres of nurse education.The success of the project will ultimately be measuredin the services as new groups of students take up theiroffer of intellectual disability nursing over the nextcouple of years, the whole process will most certainlyhelp to raise awareness of people with intellectualdisability for secondary school students.The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist (C.N.S.)in the Provision of Outreach Based Assessmentand Intervention for People with an IntellectualDisability Whose Behaviour Challenges.HSE-Dublin North-East. Regional Disability Services.Una Tumany CNM 3 Dermot Courtney CNSIona House, Drumillard, Castleblayney, MonaghanePhone:0868074606 Dermot Courtney0871212506 Una TumanyEmail: Dermot.Courtney@hse.ie - una.tumany@hse.ieThe service provided is an assessment andintervention service for people with an I.D who engagein physically assaultive behaviour.The service provided by the Clinical Nurse Specialist(C.N.S) in this area of specialist practice draws on hisqualifications as an instructor in The ProfessionalManagement of Aggression and Violence (PMAV) andPositive Behaviour Support, coupled with his practicalexperience of working in this area, resulting in a veryservice specific, needs assessed response to difficultsituations for both service users and staff.The framework for the delivery of this service in theNorth-East of Ireland was developed in the context ofMultidisciplinary Team (M.D.T.) working and a templatefor CNS work in this area. It is acknowledged that thedevelopment of CNS posts throughout the disabilitysector is very much influenced by service need, andthis in itself, results in the role and scope of these postsdiffering from one area to another. However, thetemplate outlined and discussed does have thepotential to be adapted and used for individual CNSwork across different settings.9