Nurse practitioners in major accident and emergency departments: a national survey.
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Nurse practitioners in major accident and emergency departments: a national survey.
Use of nurse practitioners in major accident and emergency (A&E) departments is rapidly increasing: currently they are used in 30% of such departments and this is expected to rise to 63% by the end of 1995. Most are trained by a formal programme in the employing hospital but 12% claim to have no formal training. The nurse practitioner could prescribe a limited range of drugs in 82% of major dep...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.12.3.177