Establishing an Australian Nurse Practitioner‐Led Colorectal Cancer Screening Clinic

Gastroenterology Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-42

  Morcom, Joylene ^a   Dunn, Sandra V ^a   Luxford, Yoni ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; AUSTRALIA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 17844362703     PISSN: 1042895X     EISSN: 15389766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001610-200501000-00008     Document Type: Article

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