title: Opportunity and the charge nurse.
abstract: Nursing Standard has, over the past six weeks, produced a series of articles dealing with issues in ward management for charge nurses. Series co-ordinator Ros Brown now offers a postscript which acts as a conclusion for the series and reflects on the dilemmas and opportunities which face charge nurses as they enter into the world of purchasers and providers, hospital Trusts and PREPP. It is essential that the role of the charge nurse is not only preserved in this changing climate, she argues, but is cultivated, nurtured and recognised as an indispensable function. The future looks bright for those prepared to discard the habits of the past and grasp the challenges of the present.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D007857:Leadership; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D011209:Power, Psychological