Leadership & Professional Development

Bringing an Inpatient Palliative Care Program to a Teaching Hospital: Lessons in Leadership

Clara Granda-Cameron

Mary Pat Lynch

David M. Mintzer

Dorothy Counts

Shailish Pinto

Margaret Crowley

cancer program development/evaluation, palliative care
ONF 2007, 34(4), 772-776. DOI: 10.1188/07.ONF.772-776

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