Reflection through web discussions: Assessing nursing students' work-based learning

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 157-164

  Hulkari, Kirsti ^a   Mahlamaki Kultanen, Seija ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conditions of employment; Continuing development; Institutional care; Learning; Self managed learning; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049094658     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620810860468     Document Type: Article

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