Consultant Nurses: changing the future?

Nurses for the future.

n engl j med 364;3 nejm.org january 20, 2011 196 From the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Phila­ delphia ( J.A.F.); the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nurs­ ing, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC (J.A.F., J.W.R., S.H., D.E.S.); the Depart­ ment of Health Policy and Management, Mailman Sch...

Consultant nurses and their potential impact upon health care delivery.

The role of the consultant nurse should be fully accepted by medical and nursing staff in order to develop new ways of working, delivering cost-effective quality patient care and meeting the agenda set out in the NHS plan. The involvement of the medical staff in identifying need, ensuring appropriate funding and subsequent training, and developing consultant-nurse posts is vital to their succes...

Medical assistants: the future nurses?

The changing professional role of community nurses

Community nurses work in diverse community settings to provide primary nursing and health care across the lifespan. Traditionally community nurses meet a continuum-of-health needs that range from the management of specific disease/s to broader community development and public health promotion needs. Health promotion and intervention consciously centre on the client who is viewed holistically; t...

Non-consultant career grade doctors: past, present and future.

There is still uncertainty and confusion over which grades of doctor are encompassed by the title ‘nonconsultant career grade doctors’ (NCCG). They are staff grade doctors and the more senior associate specialists. Also included are doctors working in the community, previously called clinical medical officers (CMOs) and senior clinical medical officers (SCMOs), although doctors in these groups ...