Distance Education: One Solution to the Nursing Shortage?

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-270

  Talbert, JeanAnne Johnson ^a  

^a Mountain View Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION;

EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; NURSES; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION;

EID: 69449090406     PISSN: 10921095     EISSN: 1538067X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/09.CJON.269-270     Document Type: Article

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