Variability of clinical hours in prelicensure nursing programs: Time for a reevaluation?
• There is a large variability in the type and number of clinical hours in prelicensure nursing education. • This descriptive comparison study identified a wide range of traditional clinical and simulation hours across four prelicensure nursing programs and found no differences in licensure exam per...
| Publicado en: | Teaching & Learning in Nursing Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 43 - 48 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Jan2021
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