Disability Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities:Learning disability nurses provide care and support to adults and children with learning difficulties to help them live as independently as possible.Assessing and planning care requirements. Advising about and organising appropriate care, resources or benefits.Writing care plans that outline timescales . assisting with basic ,practical living skills, such as getting dressed, preparing food and travelling. Liaising with relatives, colleagues and other social welfare or healthcare professionals. Monitoring and administering medication and injections. providing support to relatives. Writing records and reports. Meeting clients at home or at clinics to discuss progress. Organising social activities and holidays for clients in residential care .Helping to enable clients to have full and independent lives.

Salary:The annual salary of a developmental disabilities nurse that has earned an RN degree and certification can earn between $50,000-$60,000 per year

Education:To become a certified developmental disabilities nurse, one must first earn a degree as a registered nurse from an accredited university and complete a minimum of two year of full time employment in a developmental disabilities nursing setting, either as a practicing nurse, a nurse administrator or educator or a nurse consultant. These two prerequisites deem a nurse eligible to sit for the voluntary certification exam which is accredited by the Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association (DDNA). After successfully passing this examination, a nurse earns a Certification in Developmental Disabilities Nursing (CDDN). Certification is not required to work as a developmental disabilities nurse and because of this a student can participate in an LPN training program.

Demand for this particular career:The developmental disabilities nurse job description is dependent upon the care setting. However, most developmental disabilities nurses will be involved in patient care and medication to help the developmentally delayed individual attain their maximum level of functioning and maintain optimal health. Nurses working in the developmental disabilities field may be in charge of delivering routine medications, supervising daily activities, documenting any increase in symptoms or behavioural changes that might be attributable to medications.+

Reflection: I would love to become a developmental disability nurse because love helping people. I would love to feel that feeling when you see someone that needs help especially with a disability and be able to help them. I would like to become disability nurse because i would love to work with people that have disabilities and help them make their weakness their strengths. I just want to see the people that can't do something because they aren't able to smile and show them that they are able to do anything if they really want it. That my way of seeing things that's called in a positive way. I know that the people with disabilities can fall in depression but that's why i want to let them know that they could do what they want to do i know at a point it's going to get hard and at thof the day all it matters is the smile.