Workforce utilization of visible and linguistic minorities in Canadian nursing

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 80-88

  Premji, Stephanie ^a   Etowa, Josephine B ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural competence; Diversity; Minorities; Nursing; Workforce utilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892486062     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2012.01442.x     Document Type: Article

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