Nursing practice has been expanded greatly with time passing by.One innovative form of nursing practice is nurse-led care.The term“nurse-led care/service”has been introduced in nursing discipline for years as early as in 1960s[1].Later,several nurse-led services were reported in 1980s and 1990s[2-7].The common characteristics in these units were that the nurses provided additional things to improve patients''care,and the standard of practice was extremely high[8].The accelerating development of nurse-led care was triggered by the health care system reform in United Kingdom(UK)around 2000.In 1999,the UK government document‘Making a difference’was published[9],under the pressure of redesigning services to reduce waiting time and medical cost and to meet shortfalls in junior medical staffing[10].Since then,nurse-led care has been reported in increasing studies[11].
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