Reflections on tackling tobacco: A call to arms for remote area nurses

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Robertson, Jan ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Indigenous; Interventions; Nurses; Remote; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953047925     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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