A case study of nurse practitioner role implementation in primary care: What happens when new roles are introduced?

BMC Nursing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sangster Gormley, Esther ^a   Martin Misener, Ruth ^b   Burge, Fred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barriers; Facilitators; Implementation; Nurse practitioner; Primary care; Role; Role implementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872589209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6955-12-1     Document Type: Article

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