The unitary field pattern portrait research method: Facets, processes, and findings

Nursing Science Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 293-297

  Butcher, Howard Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Rogerian nursing science

Indexed keywords

ART; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; REVIEW;

HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PORTRAITS;

EID: 26844531692     PISSN: 08943184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894318405280390     Document Type: Review

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