Using virtual environments to enhance nursing distance education

Creative Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 132-135

  Phillips, Beth ^a   Shaw, Ryan J ^a   Sullivan, Dori Taylor ^a   Johnson, Constance ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING EDUCATION; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, NURSING; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78049437397     PISSN: 10784535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1078-4535.16.3.132     Document Type: Article

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