Hello to you all and a warm welcome to all and especially new students

Introduction and Background of the SLDNN Student Sub-Group

We are a group of Edinburgh Napier and Glasgow Caledonian Learning Disability Students. We are a Sub-group of the Scottish Learning Disability Nursing Network (SLDNN). The SLDNN are a professional network of Learning Disability Nurses who represent all NHS areas in Scotland. The Network aims are promoting high quality standards and strengthening the learning disability nursing profession and improvement of care for people with a learning disability. The SLDNN steering group committee meet up regularly.
By request of the Scottish Government who fund the SLDNN the SLDNN Student Sub-group was set up in 2014 to: open the connection and information sharing with the Network and to support the steering group. Their initial task was to join together and strengthen the relationship between Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh Napier Learning Disability Student Nurses. The Sub-group consists of students from both Universities who meet regularly. It is a great opportunity for Student Nurses to show our commitment, enthusiasm and talents, we have had great pleasure to have been asked to help organise, chair and present the morning at the SLDNN Annual Conference.
Check out last year’s summary of the conference on our blog page.

Networking enables us to participate in continuing to learn and to make improvements for people with Learning Disabilities and Nurses. The Learning Disability Nursing community is fairly small and has passion and a shared goal. To keep ourselves knowledgeable, share information and be current we are using different social media platforms.

Request to join:
SLDNN Students facebook page
Scottish Learning Disability Nursing Network (SLDNN) facebook page
Twitter - SLDNN Students @SLDNN_Students
sldnn @sldnn

See who else people are following - make connections with others.
Please uphold professionalism when posting, asking for advice or responding in these social media sites.

We will be recruiting for 1st years in the new year, find out more about what we have been doing check out of blog page and meet the committee members;
sldnnstudentsubgroup.blogspot.co.uk
We will keep you updated with developments and date/theme of the SLDNN Annual Conference 2017.

Thank you and Goodbye
We would like to congratulate all the 3rd years who qualified this year and to thank them so much for all their effort, hard work, commitment and enthusiasm they contributed to the Student Sub-group. Special thanks go to Corrinne Taylor, Sian Pearson and Zoe Lightbody from GCU who set up the group, they were successful in joining with ENU to create this committee. We thank them for giving their time and talents and paving the way forward for this committee and giving students a platform to get involved and learn from others.

Kind Regards
Julie Irvine Chairperson ENU and Danielle Docherty Chairperson GCU