%0 Journal Article %T Relevance of a specialised nurse in thoracic surgery %A Jenny Mitchell %J SCIE-indexed Journal %D 2018 %R 10.21037/jtd.2018.03.117 %X The Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Thoracic Surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom (UK), has been in post since 2011. This was a new post and has been developed to meet the needs of the local service. In examining the relevance of specialist nurses in thoracic surgery, I have reflected on the process of developing our service in Oxford and the areas where having specialist nursing input has made the most impact to the patient pathway %U http://jtd.amegroups.com/article/view/20438/html