Promoting nurses' positive attitudes toward cancer prevention/screening

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 76-84

  Howell, Suzanne L ^a   Nelson Marten, Paula ^a   Krebs, Linda U ^a   Kaszyk, Leigh ^a   Wold, Roderick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CONTINUING EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLORADO; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING;

EID: 0031863624     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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