Perceptions of the unregistered healthcare worker's role in pre-registration student nurses' clinical training

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1618-1629

  Hasson, Felicity ^a   Mckenna, Hugh P ^a   Keeney, Sinead ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical practice; Clinical training; Health Care Assistants; Mixed methods; Nurses; Nursing; Nursing auxiliaries; Nursing students; Pre registration

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEACHER; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EDUCATION, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN IRELAND; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSES' AIDES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEACHING;

EID: 84878646119     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jan.12023     Document Type: Article

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