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Safe Staffing in the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit: No Magic Formula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2010

Pat Smedley
Affiliation:
BARNA President, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University, London
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Abstract

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Conference Report
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Copyright © British Association of Anaesthetic and Recovery Nursing 2010

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