Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 829-834 , November 2009

Views on evidence from nursing and midwifery opinion leaders

  • Donna Waters

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Building M02, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 9114 4036; fax: +61 2 9351 0779.
    • ,
  • Lucie Rychetnik

      Affiliations

    • Sydney Health Projects Group, School of Public Health, Medical Foundation Building K25, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 2 9036 3449; fax: +61 2 9036 3455.
    • ,
  • Jackie Crisp

      Affiliations

    • Sydney Children’s Hospital and the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, City Campus, University of Technology, Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 9382 1797; fax: +61 2 9382 1140.
    • ,
  • Alexandra Barratt

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, Edward Ford Building A27, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 2 9351 5103; fax: +61 2 9351 7420.

,Accepted 9 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.04.006

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