Exploring the relationships between teaching, approaches to learning and critical thinking in a problem-based learning foundation nursing course

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 829-835

  Martyn, Julie ^a   Terwijn, Ruth ^a   Kek, Megan Y C A ^a   Huijser, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BATCHELOR INSTITUTE OF INDIGENOUS TERTIARY EDUCATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Critical thinking; Nursing; Problem based learning; Teaching problem based learning

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; NURSING EDUCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCEDURES; QUEENSLAND; VALIDATION STUDY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84897043570     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.04.023     Document Type: Article

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