Using the critical incident technique to explore student nurses' perceptions of language awareness

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-47

  Irvine, Fiona E ^a   Roberts, Gwerfyl W ^a   Tranter, Siobhan ^a   Williams, Lynne ^a   Jones, Peter ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical incidents; Language awareness; Student nurses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STUDENTS, NURSING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WALES;

EID: 36649010932     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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