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Original Articles

Mental Health Nursing Practice and Indigenous Australians: A Multi-Sited Ethnography

, RN, MN(Hons), , RN, PhD, , RN, DNSci & , RN, PhD
Pages 21-27 | Received 15 May 2018, Accepted 11 Jun 2018, Published online: 11 Sep 2018

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