title: Rehabilitation: realizing the potential nursing contribution.
abstract: This article highlights the present renewed interest in the subject of rehabilitation and describes the nursing role as it is portrayed in the literature. It is argued that the focus of rehabilitation is too narrow, concentrating mainly on the physical aspects of care, and that the nursing contribution is under developed. The article is the first in a series which will subsequently consider rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis, arthritis, spinal injury, myocardial infarction and stroke. The series will conclude with suggestions as to how rehabilitation in general, and nursing in particular, can respond more adequately to the needs of chronically ill and disabled people and their family carers.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nolan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nolan
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000639:trends*; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing / Q000639:trends*