Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 6 , Pages 327-332 , November 2010

(W)riting across and within: Providing a vehicle for sharing local nursing and midwifery projects and innovation

  • Vicki Parker

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Nurse Consultant Research and Practice Development, Centre for Practice Opportunity and Development, Hunter New England Area Health Service, Newcastle University, Australia
    • Clinical Nurse Consultant Research and Practice Development, Centre for Practice Opportunity and Development, Hunter New England Area Health Service, University of New England, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Clinical Nurse Consultant Research and Practice Development, Centre for Practice Opportunity and Development, Hunter New England Area Health Service, Newcastle University, Locked bag 1, Hunter Regional Mail Centre, Newcastle, 2305 NSW, Australia. Tel.: +61 0249855925.
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  • Michelle Giles

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Nurse Consultant Research, Practice Development and Information Technology, Centre for Practice Opportunity and Development, Hunter New England Area Health Service, NSW, Australia
    • ,
  • Glenda Parmenter

      Affiliations

    • School of Health, Faculty of the Professions, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
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  • Penny Paliadelis

      Affiliations

    • School of Health, Faculty of the Professions, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
    • ,
  • Catherine Turner

      Affiliations

    • Nursing and Midwifery Service, Hunter New England Area Health Service, NSW, Australia

,Accepted 9 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2010.02.002

Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 6 , Pages 327-332 , November 2010

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