Undergraduate nursing students' preparedness to "go rural"

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 620-626

  Sedgwick, Monique G ^a   Yonge, Olive ^b  

^a Grande Prairie Regional College   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nursing student; Preceptorship; Rural; Rural hospital

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIALIZATION; TEACHER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALBERTA; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MENTORS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MODELS, NURSING; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PRECEPTORSHIP; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIALIZATION; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 43849085753     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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