A transition program to primary health care for new graduate nurses: A strategy towards building a sustainable primary health care nurse workforce?

BMC Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gordon, Christopher J ^a   Aggar, Christina ^a   Williams, Anna M ^a   Walker, Lynne ^b   Willcock, Simon M ^a   Bloomfield, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Graduate nurse; Practice nurse; Primary health care; Recruitment; Retention; Sustainability; Transition; Workforce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928753242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-014-0034-x     Document Type: Article

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