The role of language skills and internationalization in nursing degree programmes: A literature review

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 49, Issue , 2017, Pages 140-144

  Garone, Anja ^a   Van de Craen, Piet ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CLIL; Global and transcultural competence; Internationalization; Language skills in nursing; Nursing education

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; NURSING EDUCATION; STUDENT; TONGUE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANGUAGE; NURSING STUDENT; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LANGUAGE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MULTILINGUALISM; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 85002131228     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.11.012     Document Type: Review

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