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Patient-Technique Orientation, Personality Factors, And Training Effects In Nursing Students, Gerald Case
Patient-Technique Orientation, Personality Factors, And Training Effects In Nursing Students, Gerald Case
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The purpose of this study was to determine if nursing students could be differentiated along a patient-technique nursing orientation continuum, and whether there would be a shift in the orientation of student nurses subsequent to participating in a training program for nurses. This study attempted to determine if personality traits could be used as predictors of the patient-technique orientation of the student nurses and if the personality of the student nurses remained stable over one year. Thirty-four student nurses in the two-year associate degree nursing program in a southern regional university were administered the nursing Pictures Interest Test (NPIT), the …