Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 6 , Pages 379-384 , November 2010

Innovation in learning – An inter-professional approach to improving communication

  • Marion Mitchell

      Affiliations

    • Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University & Princess Alexandra Hospital, Nurse Practice Development Unit, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, Qld 4102, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 (0) 7 3176 7772; fax: +61 (0) 7 3175 7356.
    • ,
  • Michele Groves

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 (0) 7 3346 4679; fax: +61 (0) 7 3365 5533.
    • ,
  • Charles Mitchell

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 (0) 7 3365 5299.
    • ,
  • Judy Batkin

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing & Midwifery, Griffith University Logan Campus, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 (0) 7338 21472; fax: +61 (0) 7338 21277.

,Accepted 7 May 2010.

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Nurse Education in Practice
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