Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 4-11 , February 2006

The influence of outreach in the development of the nurse consultant role in critical care: Cause or effect?

  • Deborah Dawson

      Affiliations

    • General Critical Care, 1st Floor St. Jame's Wing, St. George's Hospital NHS Trust, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 208 725 3129.
    • ,
  • Andy McEwen

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London, 2-16 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK

,Accepted 24 June 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.06.008

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 4-11 , February 2006

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