Challenges facing internationalisation of nursing practice, nurse education and nursing workforce in Australia

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 128-136

  Parker, Vicki ^a,b   McMillan, Margaret ^b  

^a Hunter New England Area Health Service   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Globalisation; Internationalisation; Markets; Nurse education; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547519071     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/conu.2007.24.2.128     Document Type: Article

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