International Emergency Nursing
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 280-286 , October 2008

Overview of emergency nursing in Australasia

  • Margaret Fry, RN NP BaSc MEd PhD (Associate Professor, Emergency Clinical Nurse Consultant)

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☆ This article was first published as a chapter in Emergency and Trauma Nursing, Eds. K. Curtis, C. Ramsden and J. Friendship. Mosby, Elsevier Sydney 2007. ISBN 978 07295 3769 8.

PII: S1755-599X(08)00007-4

doi: 10.1016/j.ienj.2008.01.003

International Emergency Nursing
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 280-286 , October 2008

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