title: Nurse practitioners legitimised!
abstract: The formal nurse practitioner debate began in NSW at the 1990 NSW Nurses' Association Annual Conference, when a question was put to the then NSW Minister for Health, Peter Collins, on the Government's position on independent nursing practice. A subsequent letter from Mr Collins invited submissions on the issue and a joint submission was prepared by the Association and the NSW College of Nursing. A NSW Department of Health Taskforce, under the direction of the Nursing Branch and the Chief Nursing Officer, Judith Meppem, was established.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Iliffe
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009517:New South Wales; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D012956:Societies, Nursing