Lived experience of medical veterans transitioning from military service to civilian nursing education.
Many veterans take advantage of the educational benefits afforded them after service. As veterans, students in higher education are a special population with subsequent needs. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of medic student veterans attending a full-time Bachelor of Sc...
| Published in: | Journal of Professional Nursing Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 443 - 448 |
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W B Saunders
Sep2020
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