Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 5 , Pages 308-315 , September 2010

Does specialist respiratory education make a difference to practice?

  • Carol Kelly

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,Accepted 7 February 2010.

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Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 5 , Pages 308-315 , September 2010

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