Learning and engagement with a virtual community by undergraduate nursing students

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 261-267

  Giddens, Jean ^a   Fogg, Louis ^a   Carlson Sabelli, Linnea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING EDUCATION; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77957674454     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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