Clinical placement and case study methodology: A complex affair

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 873-877

  Donnelly, Frank ^a   Wiechula, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case study methodology; Clinical placement; Complexity theory; Pattern matching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; NURSING THEORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; LEARNING; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84868301256     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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