Amira Obeid critiques the issues surrounding the emerging role of the advanced practitioner.
Lynn Austin describes a research study which provided profile of clinical nurse specialists working in a primary care setting in a bid to enhance understanding of the role and work undertaken by continence advisors in one health region.Lynn Austin MSc, RGN, MRC Fellow, School of Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting, University of Manchester.
Article accepted for publication: February 2003
Acknowledgments: This study is being undertaken as part of a Medical Research Council special training fellowship which is co-funded by the NHS executive North West. The work is being supervised by Professor Karen Luker (Professor of Nursing) and Professor Martin Roland (Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre).
Debbie Davies discusses nurse prescribing and the need for continuing professional education from a Welsh perspective
Debbie Davies MSc, RGN, BSc (Hons) Nursing, PGdip DN, PGCE, is Primary Care Quality Nurse Coordinator-Primary Care Quality Information Service-National Public Health Service Wales (NPHS)
Article accepted for publication: October 2009
