Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 32-38 , February 2008

The Career Development Year: Responding to the emergency nursing shortage in Australia

  • Julia Morphet, RN, MN (Education)

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Clinical Nurse Educator, Emergency Department, Southern Health, Australia
    • ,
  • Lisa McKenna, RN, PhD, MRCNA

      Affiliations

    • Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Peninsula Campus, Frankston, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Julie Considine, RN, PhD, FRCNA

      Affiliations

    • Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University/Northern Health, Australia

Received 5 April 2007 ,Revised 14 November 2007 ,Accepted 15 November 2007.

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PII: S1574-6267(07)00261-3

doi: 10.1016/j.aenj.2007.11.001

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 32-38 , February 2008

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