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Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 135-141 , October 2008

Nurses in the clinical area: Relevance of a PhD

  • Lesley M. Wilkes, PhD, MHPEd, Grad Dip Ed (Nurs), BSc (Hons), RN

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  • Shantala Mohan, PhD, MPH, MBBS

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    • Tel.: + 61 2 47343180; fax: + 61 2 47343182.

Received 30 June 2006 ,Accepted 16 May 2008.

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