Nursing Outlook
Volume 51, Issue 1 , Pages 20-24 , January 2003

An enriched research experience for minority undergraduates—a step toward increasing the number of minority nurse researchers

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 This study was funded by a supplement to grant No. P30 NR03962 from the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, to the Center for Research on Chronic Illness at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Jennifer Leeman, MDiv, DrPH , School of Nursing, Carrington Hall, CB #7460, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460.

PII: S0029-6554(03)50008-2

doi: 10.1067/mno.2003.6

Nursing Outlook
Volume 51, Issue 1 , Pages 20-24 , January 2003