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

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The role of nurses in providing services has moved from historical roles in segregated living residences (i.e., state schools, developmental centers, state hospitals) to roles in more inclusive healthcare settings for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Nurses’ roles are embedded in community nursing with a similar perspective and yet also have clear statements, tenets and concepts that provide the foundation for IDD nursing practice. IDD nurses practice in a variety of settings from being on site in generic health care settings, monitoring the health of individuals with IDD living in the community, and forming bridges as advocates or facilitators to improve access to needed individualized or population health focused healthcare. In this chapter, we will explore the IDD nurse’s role in the systems of health care delivery in community-based practice. Future implications for IDD nurses’ role in future health care delivery in the community are discussed.

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  1. Nursing Program, Keene State College, 70 Garland Rd, Nottingham, NH, 03290-6105, USA

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

  2. Adjunct Faculty George Mason University School of Nursing, Private Practice-Fox Associates, LLC, Fairfax Station, VA, 22039, USA

    Laura E. Fox MSN, BSN, RN, CDDN, CLCP

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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

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Hahn, J.E., Fox, L.E. (2016). Community Nursing. 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_25

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