Responsibilities of nursing schools with regard to peer mentoring

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 808-813

  Botma, Yvonne ^a   Hurter, Sarene ^a   Kotze, Reneé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Higher education institution; Mentoring; Responsibilities

Indexed keywords

NURSING EDUCATION; PEER GROUP; TEACHER;

MENTORS; PEER GROUP; SCHOOLS, NURSING;

EID: 84881024611     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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