Revealing Nursing Expertise Through PractitionerInquiry explores and reveals the often hidden workings of?expert practitioners?. It provides valuable insightsinto developing practice expertise and how expert nursing practiceis a key influence on health care practice. The authors presentevidence around the interconnected components needed to facilitate,support and enable nurses in their practice settings through atransformational framework used to further develop and refinenursing practice expertise.Part 1 explores the current context of practice expertise and theprocess of practitioner inquiry.  Part 2 examinplores theevidence for practice expertise, using exemplars from the extensive?Expertise in Practice Project?. This includesperspectives of practitioners developing their expertise in diverseareas of clinical practice as well as of from those who facilitatepractitioners to develop and articulate their practice expertise.Part 3 explores the development of portfolios of evidence thatdemonstrate expertise, examines models and approaches tofacilitation and provides a toolkit of resources.Revealing Nursing Expertise Through PractitionerInquiry provides important evidence to support the claimthat expert nurses change patients? worlds as well astransforming practice, workplace performance and organisationalwide service developments.

• Provides a framework for exploring and developing nursingexpertise
• Enables nurses to articulate their expertise and examine theirown practice
• Offers practical guidance on facilitating inquiry basedpractitioners
• Draws on results of the RCN Expertise in Practiceproject
• Written collaboratively by practitioners, practice developersand nurse academics