A model for clinical practice within the consultant nurse role.

This article discusses how the clinical, or practice element, of the consultant nurse role can best be delivered and how consultant nurses can enable others to develop their practice. The model for the clinical practice of a consultant nurse outlined in this paper is continually being reviewed. However, it is clear that consultant nurses should not work in isolation to provide care or services and must work alongside others to both inform their role and enable others to apply research evidence to nursing care.