First-year nursing students’ initial contact with the clinical learning environment: impacts on their empathy levels and perceptions of professional identity

Abstract Background Research shows that the clinical learning environment can affect medical learners’ levels of empathy and formation of professional identity. However, few studies examined the impacts of early exposure to the clinical learning environment on first-year nursing students’ empathy le...

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Main Authors: Qinghua Wang, Xiaohong Cao, Tianjiao Du
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-08-01
Series:BMC Nursing
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01016-8