title: Empowering advanced practitioners to set up nurse led clinics for improved outpatient care.
abstract: Nurse led clinics have been shown to provide more efficient outpatient care and reduce waiting times. A hospital urology department set up two clinics to improve the patient care pathway, one of which is led by advanced nurse practitioners. This article describes the training and development audit results and plans.
authors.affiliation: Queens Hospital, Burton upon Trent.
authors.forename: Loraine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lane
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Minns
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy / Q000451:nursing; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009731:Nursing Audit; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014573:Urology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration