Evaluating outcomes of the emergency nurse practitioner role in a major urban emergency department, Melbourne, Australia

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1044-1050

  Jennings, Natasha ^a,d   O'Reilly, Gerard ^a   Lee, Geraldine ^b   Cameron, Peter ^a   Free, Belinda ^a   Bailey, Michael ^c  

^a Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Emergency and Trauma Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Nurse practitioners; Nurses; Nursing; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MANPOWER; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S ROLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUEENSLAND;

EID: 40449099929     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02038.x     Document Type: Article

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