Challenging Assumptions: Association Between Clinical Hours, Simulation, and Work Experience and New Graduate Nurse Practice Readiness.
Background: Extensive clinical hours and prior health care experience are widely believed to enhance new graduate nurse practice readiness, yet supporting evidence is limited. Purpose: To examine relationships between new graduate practice readiness and clinical hours, proportion of simulation hours...
| Published in: | Nurse Educator Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 146 - 152 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
May/Jun2026
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