Intellectual Disability Nursing

This episode is about the BSc in Intellectual Disability Nursing; a speciality field of nursing that provides holistic care to persons with an intellectual disability. Intellectual disability nurses work as part of a transdisciplinary team in order to enable and empower people with intellectual disabilities to achieve their full potential. The podcast panel were Louise Brady, a lecturer on the course; Jessica Canavan who has just completed Fourth Year, and Sinead O’Donnell, a current student heading into her third year of the programme. They break down the role of the ID nurse, the structure of the course, the kind of jobs for ID nurses, and some of the misconceptions about ID nursing as a profession. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.