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ERIC Number: EJ642508
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0124
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The Learning Needs of Nurses Experiencing Job Change.
Butt, Michelle; Baumann, Andrea; O'Brien-Pallas, Linda; Deber, Raisa; Blythe, Jennifer; DiCenso, Alba
Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, v33 n2 p67-73 Mar-Apr 2002
Responses from 1,728 nurses in Canadian teaching hospitals showed that job changes required new knowledge and clinical skills; 85% received orientation but felt that it only moderately prepared them. Those moving to a new unit or hospital had significantly greater need for new knowledge than those taking a new role in the same unit. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Change, Continuing Education, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Nurses, Orientation, Skill Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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