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Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 45-53 , May 2008

An overview of the competency movement in nursing and midwifery

  • Mary Chiarella, RN, CM, Dip N.Ed. LLB (Hons) (CNAA), PhD, FRCNA

      Affiliations

    • Nursing and Midwifery Office, NSW Health and Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Health, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 9514 2986; fax: +61 2 9514 1678.
    • ,
  • Debra Thoms, RN, RM, Grad Cert Bioethics, Adv Dip Arts, BA, MNA, FRCNA, FCN, FACHSE (Hon)

      Affiliations

    • Nursing and Midwifery Office, NSW Health, Australia
    • ,
  • Cecilia Lau, RN, RM, MApp Sci, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Nursing and Midwifery Office, NSW Health, Australia
    • ,
  • Elizabeth McInnes, BA (Hons), Grad Dip App Sci, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia

,Accepted 19 December 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.colegn.2008.02.001

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