Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 48-51 , January 2010

Nursing patients with acute chest pain: Practice guided by the Prince Edward Island conceptual model for nursing

  • Janelle F. Blanchard

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Room Nurse, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 902 368 1004.
    • ,
  • Donna A. Murnaghan

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
    • Tel.: +1 902 566 0749; fax: +1 902 566 6486.

,Accepted 20 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2009.03.010

Nurse Education in Practice
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