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Caring and Carrying the Cost: Bicultural Latina Nurses’ Challenges and Strategies for Working with Coethnic Patients

Ming-Cheng M. Lo, Emerald T. Nguyen
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2018, 4 (1) 149-171; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.09
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aProfessor of sociology at the University of California–Davis
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bPhD in sociology from the University of California–Davis and was a 2016–2017 American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow
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