Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS: Foreword I Developing 'New' Nursing roles - Clinical practice development role: a personal reflection The unit based clinical practice development role: A practitioner's and manager's perspective Development of the lecturer practitioner role Development of the the role of the Rheumatology Nurse Practitioner II Models and Frameworks for Developing Practice - Networking: method, model and application Facilitating action learning in nursing. Does the hand fit the glove? Nursing in a business culture. Developing a framework for total quality management III Change and Implementation in Practice - Two levels of care. The emergence of the Health Care Assistant and the implications for the Registered Nurse Building bridges: primary nursing in a mental health unit 'When two worlds collide': Nursing reflections on the relationship between complimentary therapies and Western medicine in modern health care Freedom to grieve: a nursing response Birth rights: engendering excellence in midwifery care 'A taste of your own medicine' Index