Looking for more professionally satisfying and personally fulfilling ways to contribute to
health care provision systems, nurses are reclaiming their traditional right to independent
practice in small but growing numbers. They are expanding their clinical roles and offering a
range of innovative services, with the focus primarily on health promotion, illness and
accident prevention, chronic and palliative care, rehabilitation and support services, clinical
speciality practice and management consultancy. Efficient clinicians, these nurses are also
providing quality and effective services and creating a positive public image as patient
advocates, caregivers, counsellors and educators. This independent-minded group of
nurses include both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.