Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 873-878 , November 2009

Evaluation of a caring education program for Taiwanese nursing students: A quasi-experiment with before and after comparison

  • Li-Min Wu

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
  • ,
  • Chi-Chun Chin

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
  • ,
  • Chung-Hey Chen

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
    • Institute of Allied Health Sciences and Department of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, 1 University Road, Tainan 70101, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Institute of Allied Health Sciences and Department of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, 1 University Road, Tainan 70101, Taiwan, ROC. Tel.: +886 6 2353535.

,Accepted 14 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.05.006

Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 873-878 , November 2009