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Clinical Setting Critique

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In this article, researchers explored the different ways nursing students learn in a clinical setting. Nursing students reflected on certain learning opportunities that were significant to them in their first year of clinical practice. Students indicated that participating in complex tasks, being emotionally invested in the work they were all doing and finding an experienced nurse to be their role model were among the most important learning opportunities they experienced in their first year. Researchers found that students felt their learning was more meaningful when they were actively engaging in their learning. The article was harder for me to relate to as it only drew from experiences of first-year nurses in a clinical setting; as a second

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