Future directions for career choice research in nursing: A discussion paper

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 268-276

  Price, Sheri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Career choice; Health human resources; Nursing; Qualitative; Recruitment; Retention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NURSING;

CAREER CHOICE; HUMANS; NURSING;

EID: 71949099068     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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