Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 303-307 , May 2010

Gender, gender roles and completion of nursing education: A longitudinal study

  • Katrina McLaughlin

      Affiliations

    • Queen’s University Belfast, School of Nursing and Midwifery, 10 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 5BN, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 2890976567.
    • ,
  • Orla T. Muldoon

      Affiliations

    • University of Limerick, Department of Psychology, Limerick, IE, Ireland
    • ,
  • Marianne Moutray

      Affiliations

    • Queen’s University Belfast, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK

,Accepted 10 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.08.005

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 303-307 , May 2010

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