Brief Context In Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia v Bergin [2022] VR 4, a registered nurse (Practitioner) was found…
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The focus of this article is to explore how an individual pharmacist can create and maintain the documentation which may…
Privacy Awareness Week | 2 – 8 May 2022
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