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Japanese patients' descriptions of "the good nurse": personal involvement and professionalism

Shigeko Izumi1, Emiko Konishi, Michiko Yahiro

  • 1Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, Portland, USA. izumis@ohsu.edu

ANS. Advances in Nursing Science
|May 24, 2006
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