Australian nurses and device use: the ideal and the real in clinical practice

Australian Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 10-14

  Pelletier, Dianne ^a   Duffield, Christine ^a   Mitten Lewis, Suzanne ^a   Nagy, Sue ^b   Crisp, Jackie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NURSING STAFF; REVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0032019986     PISSN: 10367314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1036-7314(98)70425-4     Document Type: Article

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