"What made me stay?" A review of the reasons student nurses enrolled in a Bachelor of Nursing programme completed their studies: A descriptive phenomenological study

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Knight, Jessica ^a   Corbett, Andrea ^a   Smith, Cheryl ^a   Watkins, Barbara ^a   Hardy, Robin ^a   Jones, Gerralt ^a  

^a School of Nursing   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bachelor of Nursing; Completition; Family support; Finance; Resilience; Retention; Student

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENT;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENT DROPOUTS; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84868301026     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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