Lessons from the past: Confronting past discriminatory practices to alleviate the nursing shortage through increased professional diversity

Journal of Professional Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 289-294

  Andrews, Diane Randall ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic disparity; Prejudice; Racism; Recruitment; Retention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HISTORY; HUMAN; JUSTICE; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION;

EID: 0344897277     PISSN: 87557223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-7223(03)00099-1     Document Type: Article

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