Predictors of Emotional Engagement in Online Graduate Nursing Students

Darlene Kuchinski-Donnelly1, Anne M Krouse

  • 1Author Affiliations: Assistant Professor, Chair Undergraduate Nursing Department, (Dr Kuchinski-Donnelly), Misericordia University, Nursing Department, Dallas; and Dean and Professor (Dr Krouse), School of Nursing, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania.

Nurse Educator
|January 9, 2020
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