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When 37 second- and third-year nursing students in a Nigerian hospital School of nursing identified stressful situations in academic, personal, social, and clinical areas, 36 reported stressful events concerned with their clinical experience. The greatest cause of stress was critical evaluation of their professional performance, followed by patient hostility toward them.
Lois Jean Davitz (Sat,) studied this question.