Nursing: The lesser of two evils

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 676-680

  Kulakac, Ozen ^a   Özkan, Ilkay Arslan ^a   Sucu, Gülten ^a   O'Lynn, Chad ^b  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Being nurse; Male nursing students

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE NURSE; MOTIVATION; NURSE ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSES, MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649195712     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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