title: Empowering consumers: the caring challenge.
abstract: This article considers current issues relating to power relationships that exist between learning disability nurses and their clients. It examines the changing role of learning disability nurses and considers their influence on enhancing the quality of life for people with learning disabilities, whose autonomy and right to decision making has been consistently challenged throughout society.
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authors.lastname: Sines
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010358:Patient Participation; D011209:Power, Psychological