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Key influences impacting on the quality of clinical placement identified by first year undergraduate nursing students
This qualitative study by Cooper, Courtney-Pratt and Fitzgerald (in press) examined qualitative data gathered as part of a larger evaluation project. This paper reports on the open-ended questions within the survey that related to the most and least helpful aspects of their clinical experience. The majority of the student responses were positive. Students indicate overall […]
Global nursing competencies from 1981 – 2012 and now for review in Australia
This article by Blazun, Kokol and Vosner (2015) analysed the bibliometic information sourced from the Scopus database for the period 1981 – 2012. The investigators extracted common elements from 370 articles. The rationale behind the investigation was to analyse the research literature production in nursing competencies. The authors categorised competence in relation to information source; […]