Safety in Numbers 7: Veni, vidi, duci: A grounded theory evaluation of nursing students' medication dosage calculation problem-solving schemata construction

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Weeks, Keith W ^a   Higginson, Ray ^a   Clochesy, John M ^b   Coben, Diana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Medication dosage calculation problem solving; Schema construction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOSE CALCULATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; NURSING THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS, NURSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875375627     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2012.10.014     Document Type: Article

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