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Nursing Education About People with Intellectual Disability. An International Perspective

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Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan

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Nurses have a long-standing history of providing care and services to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Nursing education, as training or in pre-licensure or pre-registration nursing programs about care of people with IDD, has a strong history with variable attention in formal nursing education programs from one country to another, and is essential to improving health equity, reducing health disparities and fostering full participation in society. In this chapter, we will explore an international perspective that includes history around nursing education about people with IDD, and current status of nursing education and implications for future nursing education about people with IDD.

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  1. Keene State College, Nursing Program, 229 Main Street, Keene, NH, 03435-3801, USA

    Joan Earle Hahn Ph.D., APRN, GCNS-BC, GNP-BC

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  1. Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage and Disability and Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    I. Leslie Rubin

  2. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical Services, Division for Developmental and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel

    Joav Merrick

  3. Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

    Donald E. Greydanus  & Dilip R. Patel  & 

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Hahn, J.E. (2016). Nursing Education About People with Intellectual Disability. An International Perspective. In: Rubin, I.L., Merrick, J., Greydanus, D.E., Patel, D.R. (eds) Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18096-0_158

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