Square pegs in round holes

Learning disability nursing

“…Evidence for this can be seen from within learning disability by the constant reference by commentators to the difficulty of reconciling image and reality and the threat to the continuation of the specialism. Examples such as ‘square pegs in round holes’ (Bernal 2000), ‘it seems that we have always been looking over our shoulder’ (Mansell & Jones 2003) ‘I'm a nurse not a care worker’ (Vousden 1986) are indicative of the insecurity of learning disability nurses within their profession. These short quotations have mostly been written as part of a defence of the continuation of learning disability nursing.…”