The meaning of preceptorship: Nurses' lived experience of being a preceptor

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 530-540

  Öhrling, Kerstin ^a   Hallberg, Ingalill R ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lived experience; Nurses; Nursing education; Nursing practice; Phenomenological hermeneutic analysis; Preceptor preceptee relationship; Preceptorship; Student nurses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; TEACHER; WORK;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FACULTY, NURSING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PRECEPTORSHIP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS, NURSING; SWEDEN;

EID: 0035260625     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01681.x     Document Type: Article

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