Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 9, Issue 6 , Pages 361-366 , November 2009

District nurses’ experience of supervising nursing students in primary health care: A pre- and post-implementation questionnaire study

  • Elisabeth Bos

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Family and Community Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Alfreds Nobels Allé 12, 141 83 Huddinge, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 8 524 886 96; mobile: +46 70 484 56 45.
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  • Anna Löfmark

      Affiliations

    • Department of Caring Sciences and Sociology, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
    • ,
  • Lena Törnkvist

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Family and Community Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Alfreds Nobels Allé 12, 141 83 Huddinge, Sweden

,Accepted 12 October 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2008.10.007

Nurse Education in Practice
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