Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 52-56 , January 2010

Expanding clinical research capacity through a community of practice (CoPER)

  • Alison Short

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, Australia
    • School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health and Science, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 9685 9036; fax: +61 2 9685 9023.
    • ,
  • Wanda Jackson

      Affiliations

    • Research Strategy Office, University of New South Wales, Australia
    • ,
  • Peter Nugus

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Australia

,Accepted 20 March 2009.

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PII: S1471-5953(09)00081-X

doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2009.03.016

Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 52-56 , January 2010

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