Investigating the language needs of culturally and linguistically diverse nursing students to assist their completion of the bachelor of nursing programme to become safe and effective practitioners

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 796-801

  Crawford, Tonia ^a   Candlin, Sally ^b  

^a AVONDALE COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Culturally and linguistically diverse; English support programme; Nurse education; Safe practitioner

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; LINGUISTICS; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; LINGUISTICS; NEW SOUTH WALES; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84881030072     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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