Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 150-155 , May 2007

Being a real nurse – Concepts of caring and culture in the clinical areas

  • Karen Ousey

      Affiliations

    • Department of Adult and Children’s Nursing, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD1 3DH, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1484 473462.
    • ,
  • Martin Johnson

      Affiliations

    • Salford Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Collaborative Research, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom
    • Professor of Nursing. Tel.: +44 161 295 2768.

,Accepted 11 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2006.06.001

Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 150-155 , May 2007

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