Family Practice Vol. 5, No. 2, 116-121
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Views of Doctors and Nurses on the Development of Treatment Room Nursing: A Survey in a Scottish New Town
Carmodean Health Centre Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland
A survey of general practitioners and nurses working in the treatment room was carried out in a Scottish new town to determine present treatment room practices and how nurses and doctors saw treatment room nursing developing in the future. There was a general desire to extend the nurse's role in practical fields but disagreement between doctors and nurses over the extent to which nurses should take on diagnostic and therapeutic roles.