Seconding healthcare assistants to a pre-registration nursing course: Role transition to qualified practitioner

Journal of Research in Nursing

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 561-572

  Gould, Dinah ^a   Carr, Graham ^b   Kelly, Daniel ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

healthcare assistants; nurse education; recruitment; retention; secondment; shortages; workforce

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MANAGER; NURSING EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGISTRATION; STAFF NURSE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84990354027     PISSN: 17449871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744987106068497     Document Type: Article

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