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The use of focus groups in a study of attitudes to student nurse assessment
Author(s) -
Lankshear Annette J
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18121986.x
Subject(s) - strengths and weaknesses , focus group , focus (optics) , student nurse , psychology , medical education , nursing , medicine , nurse education , sociology , social psychology , physics , anthropology , optics
This paper describes the use of focus groups in the first phase of a study to investigate the attitudes of teachers and clinical assessors to the assessment of student nurses It offers a description of the methodology, with an analysis of its strengths and weaknesses