Shifting Paradigms: The Development of Nursing Identity in Foreign-Educated Physicians Retrained as Nurses Practicing in the United States
A unique breed of nurses for the US market is emerging-the Physician-Nurses. They are foreign-educated physicians who have retrained as nurses. The purpose of this study was to generate a theory that can explain the development of their nursing identity. Specific aims were to discover barriers that...
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Scholar Commons
2009
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Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/69 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=etd |