Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 8, Issue 6 , Pages 397-404 , November 2008

A clinical internship model for the nurse practitioner programme

  • Geraldine A. Lee

      Affiliations

    • La Trobe University, Alfred Clinical School of Nursing, The Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Melbourne 3004, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 3 9076 3933; fax: +61 3 9076 3938.
    • ,
  • Les Fitzgerald

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne 3086, Australia

,Accepted 16 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2008.03.002

Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 8, Issue 6 , Pages 397-404 , November 2008

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