Competence of nurses and factors associated with it

Medicina

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 230-237

  Istomina, Natalja ^a,b   Suominen, Tarja ^a,b,c   Razbadauskas, Arturas ^b   Martinkenas, Arvydas ^b   Meretoja, Riitta ^d   Leino Kilpi, Helena ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF HELSINKI AND UUSIMAA   (Finland)

^e HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Abdominal perioperative surgical nursing care; Factors associated with nurse competence; Nurse competence; Quality of nursing care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053297613     PISSN: 00257729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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