Nursing students' experiences of clinical competency evaluation in a pre-registration nurse education programme: A qualitative study.
Background: The evaluation of clinical competence is a diverse, rigorous procedure that determines a student's clinical competence. Despite this, little research exists on nursing students' experiences with clinical competency evaluations in Namibia. Nurse educators should thus explore nursing stude...
| Publicado en: | Curationis Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10 |
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2025
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