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International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices Volume 2 (2015), Article ID 2:IJNCP-132, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2015/132
Research Article
Clinical Nursing Competencies of Caring for Hansen's Disease Survivors During the Final Career Stage of Nurses' Development in Japan

Atsuko Nakayama1, Kazue Ishikawa1 and Makiko Kondo2*

1National Sanatorium Oshima-Seisho-en, Japan
2Graduate School of Health Sciences, Okayama University 2-5-1 Shikata, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Makiko Kondo, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Okayama University 2-5-1 Shikata, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan, Tel: +81- 86-235-6890; E-mail: mkondo@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
30 March 2015; 18 June 2015; 20 June 2015
Nakayama A, Ishikawa K, Kondo M (2015) Clinical Nursing Competencies of Caring for Hansen's Disease Survivors During the Final Career Stage of Nurses’ Development in Japan. Int J Nurs Clin Pract 2: 132. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2015/132
This work was supported by the Toyota Foundation Research Grant Program 2013 and by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number 15K15797).

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