Nursing delegation in the United Kingdom

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Gillen, Patricia ^a   Graffin, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers to delegation; Facilitators of delegation; HCAs; Health care assistants; Legal aspects of delegation; Managing delegation; Nursing delegation; Professional aspects of delegation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957984487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10913734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3912/ojin.vol15no02man06     Document Type: Article

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