Nurse practitioner candidates: Shifting professional boundaries

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-27

  Searle, Janet ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency nursing; Nurse practitioners; Nursing; Rural health

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949106571     PISSN: 15746267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aenj.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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