A case study of a longstanding online community of practice involving critical care and advanced practice nurses

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hara, Noriko ^a   Hew, Khe Foon ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDIA; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; ONLINE COMMUNITY; WORKING SITUATION;

HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NURSING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 33749663937     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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