Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 296-302 , May 2010

Preceptoring nursing students: Registered Nurses’ perceptions of nursing students’ preparation and study approaches in clinical education

  • Karin Hallin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Östersund SE-831 25, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: +46 (0) 63 1656 26.
    • ,
  • Ella Danielson

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Care Sciences, The Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Göteborg and Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden

,Accepted 10 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.08.004

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 296-302 , May 2010

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