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Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 131-138 , July 2009

Working with families: From theory to clinical nursing practice

  • Winsome St John, RN, RM, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Griffith University, Qld 4222, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School of Nursing & Midwifery, Griffith Health, Griffith University, Queensland 4222, Australia. Tel.: +61 7 5552 8935; fax: +61 7 5552 8526.
  • ,
  • Karen Flowers, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, PO Box 456, Virginia, Qld 4014, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 7 3623 7292; fax: +61 7 36237242.

Received 15 July 2008 ,Revised 26 March 2009 ,Accepted 7 April 2009.

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Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 131-138 , July 2009