How acceptable are primary health care nurse practitioners to Australian consumers?

Collegian

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-41

  Parker, Rhian ^a   Forrest, Laura ^a   Ward, Nathaniel ^a   McCracken, James ^a   Cox, Darlene ^b   Derrett, Julie ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Health Care Consumers' Association of the Australian Capital Territory   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Consumers; Nurse practitioner; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84875261541     PISSN: 13227696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colegn.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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