Margaret McCartney: Nurses must be allowed to exercise professional judgment
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Margaret McCartney: Nurses must be allowed to exercise professional judgment.
It has come to our attention that this Views and Reviews paper (BMJ 2017;356:j1548, doi:10.1136/bmj.j1548) contains an error. The article refers to "guidance written by the BMA, the Resuscitation Council, and the Royal College of Midwives." The guidance referred to is a joint publication from the BMA, the Resuscitation Council, and the Royal College of Nursing, not the Royal College of Midwives...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j1548