Doubling the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020: Predicting the right number or getting it right?

Nursing Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Feeg, Veronica ^c   Donna M Nickitas, ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MOLLOY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; NURSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960925785     PISSN: 07461739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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