Applied Nursing Research
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 94-100 , May 2009

Job satisfaction of nurses with multicultural backgrounds: a questionnaire survey in Kuwait

  • Naser Al-Enezi, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Ministry of Health, Sulaibekhat, Kuwait
    • ,
  • Rafiq I. Chowdhury, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Information Administration, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kuwait University, Sulaibekhat 90805, Kuwait
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +965 9503456; fax: +965 4830937.
    • ,
  • Makhdoom A. Shah, ScD, FASAHP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Information Administration, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kuwait University, Sulaibekhat 90805, Kuwait
    • ,
  • Muhammad Al-Otabi, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Information Administration, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kuwait University, Sulaibekhat 90805, Kuwait

Received 11 December 2006 ,Revised 12 May 2007 ,Accepted 25 May 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2007.05.005

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 94-100 , May 2009

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