Defining clinical assessment standards for bachelor's-prepared nurses in Switzerland

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-327

  Lindpaintner, Lyn S ^a   Bischofberger, Iren ^b   Brenner, Andrea ^c   Knüppel, Susanne ^d   Scherer, Theresa ^e   Schmid, Andreas ^e   Schäfer, Monika ^b   Stoll, Hans Rudolf ^a   Stolz Baskett, Petra ^f   Weyermann Etter, Suzanne ^g   Hengartner Kopp, Beatrice ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

^c University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^e BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^f ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical assessment; International nursing education; Professional standards

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSENSUS; COOPERATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANGUAGE; MODEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSENSUS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EUROPEAN UNION; FACULTY, NURSING; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MODELS, NURSING; MULTILINGUALISM; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 69549090008     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2009.01286.x     Document Type: Article

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