Advanced nursing practice hours as part of endorsement requirements for nurse practitioners in Australia: A definitional conundrum.
Purpose: To define what can be considered to be nursing practice, time that can be calculated as the practice of nursing as well as what is considered to be advanced nursing practice and how all this can be related to the current endorsement process for nurse practitioner (NP) in Australia. Data sou...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Vol. 24; no. 11; pp. 649 - 660 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2012
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