Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 68-77 , April 2008

Discrimination of educational outcomes between differing levels of critical care programmes by selected stakeholders in Australia: A mixed-method approach

  • Leanne M. Aitken

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation, Griffith University and Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Nursing Practice Development Unit, Building 5, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, Qld 4102, Australia. Tel.: +61 7 3240 7256.
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  • Judy Currey

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • Andrea P. Marshall

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sydney, Australia
    • ,
  • Doug Elliott

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

,Accepted 3 September 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.09.001

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