Newly Graduated Nurses' Perception of Competence and Possible Predictors: A Cross-sectional Survey

Journal of Professional Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 170-181

  Wangensteen, Sigrid ^a,b   Johansson, Inger S ^a,b   Björkström, Monica E ^a   Nordström, Gun ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Critical thinking; Cross sectional; Nurse competence; Nurse education; Regression analyses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; NURSES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84861569641     PISSN: 87557223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2011.11.014     Document Type: Article

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