'Crossing professional boundaries': Barriers to the integration of nurse practitioners in primary care

Education for Primary Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 480-487

  Main, Rebecca ^a,b   Dunn, Nick ^c   Kendall, Kathy ^c  

^a Salisbury District Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Practice nurses; Primary care; Primary healthcare team

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SERVICE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 34548172728     PISSN: 14739879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14739879.2007.11493578     Document Type: Article

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