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Nursing assistant beliefs about their roles and nursing home residents: implications for nursing home social work

Gawon Chung1

  • 1Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1656, USA. gawon@ucla.edu

Social Work in Health Care
|September 21, 2010
PubMed

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