Administration of medications by enrolled nurses: Perceptions of metropolitan and non-metropolitan registered nurses and nursing unit managers

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-245

  Fernandez, Ritin S ^a,b,c   Griffiths, Rhonda ^a,b,c   Aguilar, Vicki ^d   Tran, Duong ^a   Chester, Rosemary ^d  

^a South Western Sydney Centre for Applied Nursing Research   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Centre for Evidence Based Health Care   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enrolled norse; Medication management; Metropolitan; Non metropolitan; Nursing practices; Registered nurse

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249148357     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/conu.2008.27.2.237     Document Type: Article

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