AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENT'S

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AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENT’S PERCEPTION OF SAFETY A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN NURSING By Paul Richard Clark, RN, MSN, MA

San Antonio, Texas May, 2010

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AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENT'S PERCEPTION OF SAFETY Paul Richard Clark, RN, MSN, MA

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