NURSE PRACTITIONERS CLINICAL POCKET GUIDES

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Nurse Practitioner’s Clinical Pocket Guide
Ruth McCaffrey, DNP, ARNP,
FNP-BC, GNP-BC
Ellis Quinn Youngkin, PhD, RNC,
WHCNP, ARNP
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