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Ask and listen: disabled people are experts in their own care

Nurse Bethann Siviter, a wheelchair user who has an assistance dog, offers her advice to nursing students on disability etiquette
- @bethann_siviter
Posted 03 September 2019 - 00:01
Older man with walking stick and nurse. Picture: iStock
 
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