Supporting primary health care nurse practitioners' transition to practice

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1176-1182

  Sullivan Bentz, Maureen ^a,b   Humbert, Jennie ^c   Cragg, Betty ^b   Legault, Frances ^b   Laflamme, Célyne ^b   Bailey, P H ^d   Doucette, Suzanne ^b  

^a Sullivan Bentz Health Care Consultation Services   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Sudbury East Community Health Centre   (Canada)

^d LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; E-MAIL; ETHNOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING EDUCATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEACHER; WORK;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 78649381178     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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