Acknowledge your true value as a specialist nurse

摘要

Never has it been a more important time than now to focus on recognizing your true value as a nurse specialist, and ensuring your role is appreciated and understood by other healthcare disciplines. This particularly relates to the effect specialist skills can have on changing patient lives, and how specialist practice has the potential to save money. It has long been recognized that, for those people living within the UK suffering from a long-term illness, the specialist nurse not only has a direct impact on the life of the patient and their family, but also provides direct patient care and plays a vital role in promoting the patients health and wellbemg (Royal College of Nursing (R.CN), 2010). As a result of this, specialist nurses are required to work at an advanced level of nursing.