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The nursing contribution to rehabilitation is currently underdeveloped and focuses too narrowly on the physical aspects of care.
This article highlights the need to broaden the focus of rehabilitation beyond physical care and to further develop the nursing contribution.
Should not yet change rehabilitation nursing practice; hypothesis-generating for holistic models and requires prospective trials.
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.
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Nolan et al. (1997) conducted a review in Rehabilitation. Nursing contribution to rehabilitation was evaluated. The nursing contribution to rehabilitation is currently underdeveloped and focuses too narrowly on the physical aspects of care.
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