Readiness Estimate and Deployability Index for Air Force Nurse anesthetists

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-39

  Stevenson, Mark A ^c   Scholes, Robert B ^c   Dremsa, Theresa L ^a   Austin, Paul N ^b  

^a 59th Clinical Research Squadron ^*  (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; NURSE ANESTHETIST; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; REGISTERED NURSE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; STATISTICS; VALIDITY;

EID: 33846180672     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.1.36     Document Type: Article

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