'Sustained by a commitment to social justice'.

Nurse Res

Faculty of Health, University of Central England, Birmingham, UK.

Published: January 2008

Paula McGee, senior research fellow in nursing, Faculty of Health, University of Central England, talks about being a nurse, becoming a tutor and how her work in transcultural care opened doors for her that she had never known existed.

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