The Nurse Endoscopist: Reality or Fiction?

Gastroenterology Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-20

  Froerer, Roxanne ^a  

^a Salina Medical Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING DISCIPLINE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; SPECIALTIES, NURSING;

EID: 0031626688     PISSN: 1042895X     EISSN: 15389766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001610-199801000-00005     Document Type: Article

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