title: Outpatient nurses must adapt to survive.
abstract: Outpatient nursing has long been considered a clinical backwater. However, recent critical reports, the NHS reforms and other trends in healthcare are likely to change this. Outpatient nurses must move quickly to develop a new role for themselves or the opportunity will be lost. They should aim to make the best possible use of their nursing skills, given that outpatients need nursing care.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marsden
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends