A learning partnership: Exploring preceptorship through interviews with registered and novice nurses

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 369-385

  Ockerby, Cherene M ^a   Newton, Jennifer M ^b   Cross, Wendy M ^b   Jolly, Brian C ^b  

^a Southern Health   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Preceptorship; Registered nurses; Undergraduate students; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051580650     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260903284440     Document Type: Article

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