Delegation and supervision of healthcare assistants’ work in the daily management of uncertainty and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 377-385

  Allan, Helen T ^a   Magnusson, Carin ^b   Evans, Karen ^c   Ball, Elaine ^d   Westwood, Sue ^b   Curtis, Kathy ^b   Horton, Khim ^b   Johnson, Martin ^d  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

delegation; invisible learning; newly qualified nurses; preceptorship

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; ENGLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MANAGER; NURSE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; NURSING EDUCATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY; UTILIZATION;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; ENGLAND; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEARNING; NURSES; PRECEPTORSHIP; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84985931306     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12155     Document Type: Article

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