Nursing students' conception of clinical skills training before and after their first clinical placement: A quantitative, evaluative study

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 125-132

  Struksnes, Solveig ^a   Engelien, Ragna Ingeborg ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Human patient simulation; Internship; Nursing skills; Sponge bath

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NURSING HOME; NURSING STUDENT; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKILL; STUDY DESIGN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; PSYCHOLOGY;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; STUDENTS, NURSING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84959375523     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2015.10.009     Document Type: Article

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