Second Life®: A New Strategy in Educating Nursing Students

Clinical Simulation in Nursing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Aebersold, Michelle ^a   Tschannen, Dana ^a   Stephens, Marc ^a   Anderson, Patricia ^a   Lei, Xuefeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Patient safety; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869886489     PISSN: 18761399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecns.2011.05.002     Document Type: Review

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