Integrating Advanced Practice Registered Nurses into Nursing Homes: The Missouri Quality Initiative Experience

Journal of Nursing Care Quality

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 93-98

  Vogelsmeier, Amy ^a   Popejoy, Lori ^a   Rantz, Marilyn ^a   Flesner, Marcia ^a   Lueckenotte, Annette ^a   Alexander, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANPOWER; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MISSOURI; NURSING HOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84958617213     PISSN: 10573631     EISSN: 15505065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000114     Document Type: Article

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