An Assessment of Students' Confidence in Performing Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Skills: The Impact of the Clinical Practicum Experience

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 244-250

  Fiedler, Ruth Anne ^a   Breitenstein, Susie ^a   Delaney, Kathleen ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

baccalaureate; confidence; practicum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864744254     PISSN: 10783903     EISSN: 15325725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078390312455218     Document Type: Article

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