Defining the nurse’s role in outpatients
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Defining the nurse’s role in outpatients

Susan Scott Adviser in Nursing Practice, Royal College of Nursing

Government initiatives have heralded numerous changes to the role, responsibilities and perceived status of nurses working in outpatients departments. Susan Scott analyses the issues and describes how the RCN Outpatient Nursing Special Interest Group is seeking to address them.

Nursing Standard. 6, 32, 37-39. doi: 10.7748/ns.6.32.37.s43

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