Supporting students in clinical practice: Pre-registration nursing students' views on the role of the lecturer

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 780-784

  Price, Lesley ^a   Hastie, Liz ^a   Duffy, Kathleen ^a   Ness, Valerie ^a   McCallum, Jacqueline ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faculty support; Nursing students; Student experiences; Student placements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEACHER; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, NURSING; FACULTY, NURSING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MENTORS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 80755153733     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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