Mentoring as a strategy for retaining racial and ethnically diverse students in nursing programs

Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 17-23

  Wilson, Vicki W ^a   Andrews, Margaret ^a   Leners, Debra Woodard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Education; Mentoring; Nursing, retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845509033     PISSN: 15268233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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