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Article: Important lessons: Mike Walsh describes a new organisation that is campaigning for common nurse practitioner education.(perspectives)
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- Nursing Standard
- Article date:
- July 23, 2003
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Nurse practitioner role development began in the United States and has now spread to more than 30 countries from Europe to Australasia The role is also rapidly expanding in the NHS.
There is, however, one big difference between the UK approach and that of most other countries: in the latter the title of nurse practitioner is recognised and regulated. In the UK, nursing's regulatory body the then UKCC refused to recognise the role. And its successor the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)--whose motto is 'protecting the public through professional standards'--has so far taken no action.
At present nurses are employed in a wide range of advanced practice ...