Developing advanced rural nursing practice: A whole new scope of responsibility

Collegian

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 177-182

  Cant, Robyn ^a   Birks, Melanie ^b   Porter, Joanne ^a   Jacob, Elisabeth ^a   Cooper, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advanced nursing; Autonomy; Rural nursing; Scope of practice

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANPOWER; NURSE ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RURAL HEALTH CARE;

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NURSE'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; VICTORIA;

EID: 82855175163     PISSN: 13227696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colegn.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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