The role of education in developing specialist practice

It really is a great pleasure for me to write this paper. Before EDTNA was born, when it was a only a glimmer in its Mother's eye, I fell in love with renal nursing. And it was through renal nursing that I became involved with the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom, which has played such an important role in advancing the art and science of nursing, and in encouraging the development of clinical nursing expertise, and the role of specialist practice.