title: Re-defining nursing expertise in the United kingdom.
abstract: There is now international recognition of the importance of practice expertise in modern and effective health services. The Expertise in Practice Project in the United Kingdom began in May 1998 and continued to 2004. It included nurses working in all four countries of the United Kingdom, and it covered clinical specialists from pediatrics to palliative care. The project added to the current understanding of what nursing practice expertise is, through the identification and verification of attributes and factors which enable expert practice. The proposed framework offers a language for sharing what constitutes practice expertise and offers insight into what occurs between the expert practitioner and the people that experience their care. The Expertise in Practice Project demonstrates that nurses affect change and facilitate performance and organizational development.
authors.affiliation: Nursing and Midwifery Research Unit, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of East Anglia, Norwich, London.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: Angie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Titchen
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Manley
authors.forename: Brendan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: McCormack
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003657:Decision Making; D004645:Empathy; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D019545:Intuition; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009014:Morals; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009736:Nursing Process; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011340:Problem Solving; D017748:Time Management; D016526:Workload