Long live the CNS and the NP in psychiatric nursing: Do not blend the roles

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Lego, Suzanne ^a,b,c,d  

^a American Academy of Nursing ^*

^b American Academy of Nursing   (United States)

^c American Nurses Association   (United States)

^d Amer Grp Psychotherapy Association   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Nursing Practice; Clinical Nurse Specialists; Education; Nurse Practitioners; Nursing Graduate; Nursing Role; Primary Health Care; Psychiatric Nursing

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE; NURSING; REVIEW;

EID: 0043219089     PISSN: 10913734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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