Practice issues: Credentialing, prescriptive authority, and liability

Nurse Practitioner Forum: Current Topics and Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 106-114

  Barkley Jr , Thomas W ^a   Haskin, Regina C ^b   Tejedor, Melanie A ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Medical Oncology Associates ^*

^c Medical Oncology Associates   (United States)

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