Impact of educational intervention measures on knowledge regarding HIV/occupational exposure and post exposure prophylaxis among final year nursing students of a tertiary care hospital in central India

Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Khatri, A K ^a   Taneja, Gunjan ^a   Saroshe, Satish ^a   Baghel, Siddharth Singh ^a   Jaiswal, Shruti ^a   Soni, Sona ^a   Sengar, Sunil Singh ^a  

^a MGM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Nurses; Occupational exposure; Post exposure prophylaxis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953566275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09725997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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