title: Advanced nursing roles: their worth in nursing.
abstract: Various factors have influenced the development of advanced nursing roles, including the quest for professional status and advances in medical science. Advanced nursing roles must be firmly based in a nursing philosophy and seek to improve patient care. Advanced nursing roles can benefit the individual nurse, the nursing profession, the consumer and the health-care organisation.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Auckland Institute of Technology, New Zealand.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dyson
mesh_terms: D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000592:standards*; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D017009:Professional Autonomy