Stranger to Friend Enabler: Creating a Community of Caring in African American Research Using Ethnonursing Methods

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 34-39

  Plowden, Keith O ^a   Wenger, Anna Frances Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; COMMUNITY CARE; EMPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; NURSING RESEARCH; REVIEW; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NURSING RESEARCH; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING;

EID: 0035240004     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104365960101200105     Document Type: Article

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