Views on unsafe nursing students in clinical learning

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Killam, Laura A ^a   Montgomery, Phyllis ^a   Luhanga, Florence Loyce ^a   Adamic, Peter ^a   Carter, Lorraine M ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Q< em> methodology; clinical education; undergraduate nursing education; unsafe student

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; NURSING CARE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; STANDARD;

BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; NURSING CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 78149265178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1548923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1548-923X.2026     Document Type: Article

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