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Values, Assumptions, Behaviours, And Practices Influencing The Professional Development Of Nursing Students Within Acute Care Practice Environments In Rwanda: A Focused Ethnographic Study, Benoite Umubyeyi

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The future of the nursing profession in Rwanda in large part depends on the nursing students who join the workforce and the training they have received. Preparing them to enter the profession with the necessary clinical competencies, values, and attitudes requires practice-based learning environments to become more supportive of facilitating their professional development. The current learning environments experienced by nursing students in Rwanda, and the values, assumptions, practices, and behaviours of different stakeholders involved in preparing them to enter professional practice, have not yet been explored.

The aim of this study was to address that knowledge gap by exploring the …