The decision making of heart failure specialist nurses in clinical practice

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1313-1324

  Dowding, Dawn ^a   Spilsbury, Karen ^a   Thompson, Carl ^a   Brownlow, Ros ^a   Pattenden, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Cognitive continuum theory; Heart failure specialist nurse; Nurses; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; NURSING; NURSING DISCIPLINE;

DECISION MAKING; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; SPECIALTIES, NURSING;

EID: 64549099878     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02700.x     Document Type: Article

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