title: Nursing people with learning disabilities: new directions.
abstract: Since the suggestion that the mental handicap branch of nursing be disbanded 21 years ago, these nurses have refocused their vision and emerged as a new and exciting specialism. This article relates their experiences to the key issues now confronting nursing in general, in a changing social and political context.
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authors.lastname: Sines
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing*; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000451:nursing*; D016294:Models, Nursing; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000639:trends; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*