Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 124-127 , January 2009

The fast track back to registered nurses employment

  • Lisa Marie Bernardo

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, 415 Victoria Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 412 624 7637; fax: +1 412 383 7293.
    • ,
  • Helen K. Burns

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, 330 Victoria Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • Tel.: +1 412 624 6616.
    • ,
  • Rosemary Hoffmann

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, 336 Victoria Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • Tel.: +1 412 624 3821.
    • ,
  • Joseph Dailey

      Affiliations

    • UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    • ,
  • Thomas Hornyak

      Affiliations

    • UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

,Accepted 25 August 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2008.08.014

Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 124-127 , January 2009

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