Pre-registration nurse education in pharmacology: Is it adequate for the roles that nurses are expected to fulfil?

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 447-456

  Morrison Griffiths, Sally ^a,b   Snowden, Michael A ^a,b   Pirmohamed, Munir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NURSING EDUCATION; PHARMACOLOGY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTRATION; ROLE PLAYING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036672807     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0260-6917(02)90756-2     Document Type: Article

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