Asia-Pacific nursing scholarship development: Qualitative exploration of nurse scholars in Taiwan (Republic of China)

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2601-2610

  Turale, Sue ^a   Shih, Fu Jin ^b   Klunklin, Areewan ^c   Chontawan, Ratanawadee ^c   Ito, Misae ^d   Nakao, Fujiko ^e  

^a Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d KAWASAKI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL WELFARE   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Nursing education; Nursing research; Professional development; Qualitative study; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NURSING CARE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING RESEARCH; TAIWAN;

EDUCATION, NURSING; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NURSING CARE; NURSING RESEARCH; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955948525     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.03100.x     Document Type: Article

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