Slow growth in the United States of the number of minorities in the RN workforce

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 179-183

  Buerhaus, Peter I ^a   Auerbach, David ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Minorities; Nursing; RNs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MANPOWER; MINORITY GROUP; NURSE; NURSING; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MINORITY GROUPS; NURSES; NURSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032613149     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1999.tb00464.x     Document Type: Article

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