Perspective: What’s in a name?

Concern has been growing in the nursing world about the potential misuse of the title ‘nurse’. The debate came to a head following publication of analysis of advanced and specialist nurses, and the discovery that a significant number of posts in the NHS have titles such as ‘Advanced Nurse Practitioner’ or ‘Specialist Nurse’ but the post-holders were not registered nurses (Leary et al. 2017). When a new nursing support role was proposed in...