Preferences for continuing education through existing electronic access for Australian Nurse Practitioners and its implication in prescribing potential

Collegian

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 79-83

  Newman, Claire ^a   Buckley, Thomas ^a   Dunn, Sandra ^b   Cashin, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuing education; Elearning; Nurse Practitioner; Personal Digital Assistants; Point of care technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONERS;

EID: 67349093569     PISSN: 13227696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colegn.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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