Generic and specialist nursing roles in the community: an investigation of professional and lay views.
In the UK, a number of policy documents have sought to outline and clarify the role of the community nurse in the past 10 years. Furthermore, the increasing specialisation of community nursing has been the topic of much debate in the UK and Ireland. The present study aimed to investigate the percept...
| Publicado en: | Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 11; no. 6; pp. 537 - 546 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2003
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