Editorial: PDF OnlyThe Clinical Specialist in Rehabilitation NursingPLAISTED, LENA M.AJN, American Journal of Nursing: March 1969 - Volume 69 - Issue 3 - p 562 Free Abstract The fundamental concept in rehabilitation, this author says, is to maintain or increase function. It is logical, therefore, that rehabilitation nursing specialists perceive their core competence as the ability to devise, adapt, apply, and teach nursing measures to assist patients to achieve optimum function. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers.
