Research and practice development in Wales

This month's report from the RCN R&D Co-ordinating Centre is about how the centre is used from the Welsh perspective. Angela Perrett, RCN Wales Librarian and Information Services Manager, writes about the co-ordinating centre's development in Wales, and Helen Nethercott, a practice development nurse at the Pembrokeshire and Derwen NHS Trust, recounts her experience of the interactive Internet workshop.

Management of learning disability in the general hospital

Learning-disabled people need to use the same medical services as the rest of the population. Once referred to a general hospital their diagnosis and treatment must take into account any special needs generated by their disability. This article describes the way in which this can be achieved and the resource implications.

Negative recall bias and neuroticism: state vs trait effects

Incidental recall of positive and negative trait adjectives was assessed in high and low N (neuroticism) Ss in whom depressed or neutral mood had been induced. Results indicated that the negative recall bias is an interactive function of trait vulnerability (as reflected by N scores) and current mood state. In the depressed mood condition, there was a trend for high N to be associated with relatively better recall of negative material, as expected. However, in neutral mood, high levels of N predicted relatively poorer recall of negative information. This unexpected finding was discussed in relation to previous research into mood-incongruent recall effects and sex differences.