Journal of Pediatric Health Care
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 81-94 , March 2010

Strengthening PNP Curricula in Mental/Behavioral Health and Evidence-based Practice

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 Funding for this project was provided by the Commonwealth Fund. For further information about the educational resource tool kit from this project, please contact Bernadette.Melnyk@asu.edu.

PII: S0891-5245(09)00028-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2009.01.004

Journal of Pediatric Health Care
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 81-94 , March 2010