title: Specialisation in nursing: are we ready for the year 2000?
abstract: The development of specialty nursing practice and nurse specialists in today's health care arena is a controversial yet growing force, fuelled by a complexity of factors from both within and external to the profession. By narrowing the focus on parts of the whole field of nursing, nurses have met the challenge of increasing technology, complexity of the health care system, and nursing care needs. Although the debate regarding nurse specialists continues to rage, the production of such nurses will push beyond the boundaries of the profession into the new millennium, in the interests of patient care.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arndt
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends