Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 180-186 , February 2010

Who enters nursing schools and why do they choose nursing? A comparison with female non-nursing students using longitudinal data

  • Sung-Hyun Cho

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Nursing, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea. Tel.: +82 2 2220 0798; fax: +82 2 2295 2074.
    • ,
  • So Young Jung

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Sunyoung Jang

      Affiliations

    • Health Technology Assessment Department, Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, Seoul, Republic of Korea

,Accepted 12 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.07.009

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 180-186 , February 2010

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