Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to advancing practice in pain management / Eloise Carr and Martin Christensen -- Nurse-led femoral nerve block service for patients with fractured neck of femur / Mandy Layzell -- New directions in acute pain management : ketamine / Gillian Chumbley -- Developing a nurse-led clinic for the treatment of neuropathic pain / Eileen Mann -- Nurse-led strategies to improve patient safety in acute pain management / Felicia Cox -- Developing an acupuncture service for chronic pain / Ruth H. Heafield ... [et al.] -- The advanced nurse practitioner : developing alliances / Ruth Day and Dee Burrows -- An overview of advanced nursing practice in the development of pain clinics in primary care : new ways of working / Paul Bibby -- Development of nurse-led pain management programmes : meeting a community need / Dee Burrows -- Nurse prescribing in acute and chronic pain management / Trudy Towell and Martin Christensen -- Nurses leading the development of interprofessional education in pain management / Ann Taylor -- New knowledge for advancing practice in pain management / Martin Christensen and Eloise Carr.