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Making a difference as a nurse consultant

25 March 2010

Nursing Older People

Feature

The nurse consultant role has existed for a decade. The five components of the role – professional leadership, service development, research, education and training,...

Developing an acute oncology service

10 May 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

Acute oncology is an emerging specialty. This article examines the development of a nurse consultant role in acute oncology in a district general hospital. It is...

Nurse consultants and the care of older people: developing new roles

01 June 2003

Nursing Older People

Gerntological nurse practice

The rapidly developing roles of nurse consultants continue to challenge the essence and scope of nursing practice (DoH 2002), and national health policy has created...

Future nurse leaders

01 October 2009

Nursing Older People

Feature

This article examines NHS Education South Central’s innovative approach to the development of future consultant practitioners through its mental health consultant...

Minor illness management: empowering parents through shared knowledge

01 February 2005

Paediatric Nursing

General

Children are frequent users of all types of health-care, with a limited number of common conditions, such as respiratory illness, fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, and...

Labour’s legacy

16 March 2010

Nursing Standard

Features

Since Labour’s landslide majority in the 1997 general election, many new roles for nurses have been introduced.

A place of their own

03 September 2008

Nursing Standard

General article

Teenagers and young adults with cancer have specific care requirements. The charity Teenage Cancer Trust works to address these needs.