Improving student interview skills: The virtual avatar as client

Nurse Educator

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-15

  Sweigart, Linda ^a   Hodson Carlton, Kay ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT SIMULATION; STUDENTS, NURSING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84871822027     PISSN: 03633624     EISSN: 15389855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0b013e318276df2d     Document Type: Article

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