Nursing education: Reducing reality shock for graduate Indigenous nurses - it's all about time

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-66

  Hinton, Allison ^a   Chirgwin, Sharon ^b  

^a Palmerston Community Care Centre   (Australia)

^b BATCHELOR INSTITUTE OF INDIGENOUS TERTIARY EDUCATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Indigenous Australian nurses; Intensive theory delivery; Maximum clinical practice hours; Reality shock

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049243520     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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