title: The nurse practitioner role in New South Wales: development and policy.
abstract: The award of a Florence Nightingale Scholarship enabled research which looked at the role and development of nurse practitioners to be undertaken in three Australian states. Maxine Offredy relates the issues to current developments in the UK.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Offredy
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D009517:New South Wales; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy