The influence of personal characteristics on student nurse health attitudes

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 55-61

  Moyle, Wendy ^a   Park, Yeon Suk ^b   Olorenshaw, Rachel ^a   Grimbeek, Peter ^a   Griffiths, Susan ^a   Murfield, Jenny ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Kongju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Feelings; Health attitudes; Intentions to act; Personal characteristics; Student nurses

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949644077     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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