Nursing Students Learn to Handle Stress and to Prioritize in a Complex Context During Workplace Learning in Acute Internal Medicine Care – An Ethnographic Study

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Figure 1 Illustration of the inductive comparative analysis process.

Note: ¹Kolb¹⁵;²Wenger⁹; ³Hägg Martinell et al⁶; ⁴Hägg Martinell et al.¹⁰

Table 1 Identified Themes and Subthemes

Themes	Subthemes
To handle shifting situations	To manage stress
	To create structure and space for learning
	To deal with hierarchies
To build relationships	To collaborate professionally
	To interact with patients
To act independently	To take own responsibility
	Prioritizing in a complex context

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