Flexible education for new nursing roles: Reflections on two approaches

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-59

  Swallow, Veronica ^a   Coates, Maggie ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accreditation; Experimental learning; Metacognition; Reflection; Work based learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; LEARNING; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SKILL; TEACHING;

EID: 1542375348     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-5953(03)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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