ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the new and extended roles for nurses that have been developed in recent years. The development of new and extended roles within inpatient settings has lagged behind many other specialities. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has published a range of guidance on the scope and application of new and extended roles including assistant practitioner, advanced practitioner, modern matron and nurse consultant, which together offer a framework for developing such roles within child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) settings. This is alongside practice standards for more traditional roles such as ward sister and charge nurse and for the clinical nurse specialist role, all of which are more common yet poorly defi ned within CAMHS (McDougall 2000, 2016).
