Original post by deviant182I am currently writing up my post for this week as i started my last placement of first year this week! I have been in a learning disability hospital, then i had my out of field placement which was childrens and now i am in a learning disability day center.
I really dislike that post as i find it scary and somewhat misleading. While that may have been the case for that person, it is not like that for the majority of others.
If you are doing learning disability, you will work alongside a plethora of professionals. Speech and language therapists, ld nurses, other trained nurses, care workers, physios, psychologists, the list goes on.
After all, people with learning disabilities often have complex health needs so you may have a placement where they may not be a lot of ld nurses but they will work with them to ensure the pwld has the greatest quality of health and maximum level of health for them.
Please dont worry about learning disability placements. You will always hear scare stories etc as in my opinion l.d is the least understood branch. So many people are not aware of the work we do and all the syndromes we need to know, such as fragile x, divry von bogart, scwachman-diamond syndrome....it goes on. It can be hard, but the way ive always looked at it is, if that person doesnt understand the branch, help them to. If they dont respect it, then they probably dont respect pwld. Amd it is up to us to advocate for pwld and educate those that dont know.