“I know exactly what I’m going into”: Recommendations for pre-nursing experience from an evaluation of a pre-nursing scholarship in rural Scotland

Nursing Open

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 105-118

  Smith, Annetta ^a   Beattie, Michelle ^a   Kyle, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; Nurse recruitment and retention; Pre nursing experience; Qualitative research; Scholarship

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053359009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20541058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nop2.23     Document Type: Article

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