Scoping the prospects of Australian mental health nursing.
In March 2000 the Australian & New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses submitted the final report on the National Scoping Study of Mental Health Nursing in Australia to the Mental Health Branch of the Department of Health and Aged Care. In this final article, in a series of four, the authors present an overview of the future prospects of mental health nursing in Australia.
Clinton
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School of Nursing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. clintonm@nursing.curtin.edu.au
Hazelton
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