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Department Case Study—Acute & Specialty Care| Volume 28, ISSUE 6, P550-554, November 2014

An Emerging Population: The Chronically Critically Ill

      Duke University

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      Biography

      Philip Jurasinski, Graduate Nursing Student, Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, WI.

      Biography

      Christine A. Schindler, Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Division of Critical Care, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, and Coordinator, Pediatric Acute Care Graduate Option, Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, WI.