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Using Learning Outcome Measures to assess Doctoral Nursing Education
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Cultivating quality: creating a unit-based resource nurse program
Beth Quinn-O'Neil1, Mary Ellen Kilgallen, Janice A Terlizzi
1Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, NJ, USA. quinn-oneil@mail.holyname.org
The American Journal of Nursing
|August 26, 2011
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