Community Nursing Care for Clients with Chronic and Complex Conditions

Collegian

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 21-25

  Cioffi, Jane ^a   Wilkes, Lesley ^a   Warne, Bronwyn ^b   Harrison, Kathleen ^b   Vonu Boriceanu, Oana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

chronic and complex; clients; community nurses; community nursing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054893306     PISSN: 13227696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1322-7696(08)60569-7     Document Type: Article

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