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Table 1 Overview of the results

From: To belong or not to belong: nursing students’ interactions with clinical learning environments – an observational study

Themes on how nursing students are influenced by clinical learning environments

Aspect of

Dimension of clinical learning environments

Workplace affordance

Individual engagement

Being aspirational in taking up the offered role

Offered conditional membership

Striving to fill out the role

Community of clinical learning

Being overwhelmed by the responsibility of care

Entrusted to provide care

Trying to handle the responsibility

Design of clinical learning

Being hesitant to negotiate own values with reality

Exposure to pragmatic reality

Challenging basic values

Context of clinical learning

  1. Overview of results according to the three themes; aspects of workplace affordance and individual engagement; the dimensions of clinical learning environments in relation to the themes