Recruitment, selection and retention of nursing and midwifery students in Scottish Universities

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1301-1310

  Rodgers, Sheila ^a   Stenhouse, Rosie ^b   McCreaddie, May ^c   Small, Pauline ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d Lynebank Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attrition; Best practice; Midwifery; Nursing; Pre registration education; Recruitment; Retention; Selection

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDWIFE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDWIFERY; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, NURSING; SCOTLAND; STUDENT DROPOUTS; STUDENTS, NURSING; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84884290075     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.02.024     Document Type: Article

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