Public health nurses in rural/frontier one-nurse offices
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Public health nurses in rural/frontier one-nurse offices.
INTRODUCTION Public health nursing is the foundation of the United States' (US) public health system, particularly in rural and remote areas. Recent increasing interest in public health in the USA has highlighted that there is limited information available about public health nursing in the most isolated areas, particularly in the US. The purposes of this study were to: (1) describe the charact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rural and Remote Health
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1445-6354
DOI: 10.22605/rrh1282