Swedish nursing students' experience of aspects important for their learning process and their ability to handle the complexity of the nursing degree program

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 453-457

  Lilja Andersson, Petra ^a   Edberg, Anna Karin ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Education; Interview; Nursing students; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF EFFICACY; STUDENTS, NURSING; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859627909     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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