Bringing community health nursing education to life with serious games

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hogan, Michelle ^a   Kapralos, Bill ^a   Cristancho, Sayra ^b   Finney, Ken ^c   Dubrowski, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c TubettiWorld Games ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

community health nursing; experiential learning; game based learning; serious games

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953807552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1548923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1548-923X.2072     Document Type: Review

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