Managing to nurse: Inside Canada's health care reform

Managing to Nurse: Inside Canada's Health Care Reform

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-222

  Rankin, Janet M ^a   Campbell, Marie L ^b  

^a VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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