The American experience
Wendy Nehring Acting Associate Dean for Educational Services and Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA
Nurses in the USA who specialise in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities perform a wide variety of roles. Wendy Nehring reports
As in other countries, the choice of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) as a nursing specialty is not common among nurses in the United States.
Learning Disability Practice.
6, 3, 20-22.
doi: 10.7748/ldp2003.04.6.3.20.c1518
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