Developing team leadership to facilitate guideline utilization: Planning and evaluating a 3-month intervention strategy

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-132

  Gifford, Wendy ^a   Davies, Barbara ^a   Tourangeau, Ann ^b   Lefebre, Nancy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Saint Elizabeth Health Care   (Canada)

Author keywords

Implementation research; Intervention studies; Leadership; Nurse administrators; Nurse managers; Practice guidelines

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651371110     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01140.x     Document Type: Article

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