Association of community health nursing educators: Disaster preparedness white paper for community/public health nursing educators

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 362-369

  Kuntz, Sandra W ^a   Frable, Pamela ^b   Qureshi, Kristine ^c   Strong, Linda L ^d  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CONSENSUS; CURRICULUM; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; LEADERSHIP; NURSE ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CONSENSUS; CURRICULUM; DISASTER PLANNING; LEADERSHIP; NURSE'S ROLE; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; SOCIETIES;

EID: 47249157249     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2008.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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