Staffing alternatives: Research versus perception

Nurse Leader

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 46-51

  Shaffer, Franklin A ^a  

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EID: 33744761153     PISSN: 15414612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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