Contextualising the trajectory of experience of expert, competent and novice nurses in making decisions and solving problems

Collegian

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-27

  Oliver, Mary ^a   Butler, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

clinical decision making; clinical judgement; clinical nursing knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750375457     PISSN: 13227696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1322-7696(08)60440-0     Document Type: Article

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