Undergraduate nursing students attitude to mental health nursing: A cluster analysis approach

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 3155-3164

  Gough, Karla ^b   Happell, Brenda ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Clinical experience; Cluster analysis; Mental health nursing; Nurses; Preceptorship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 70349921300     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02764.x     Document Type: Article

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