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David Kolb's (1981) experiential learning theory was used to examine d
ifferences between first- and fourth-year nursing and medical students
' perceptions of competencies important for nursing and medicine, A co
nvenience sample of nursing (n = 109) and medical (n = 108) students f
rom a large Canadian research university was surveyed, Respondents com
pleted the Environmental Press Questionnaire, the Adaptive Competency
Scale, and a 6-item measure of attitudes toward collaborative nurse-ph
ysician patient care decision making. Nursing students' perceptions of
competencies important for medicine were found to be more congruent w
ith medical students' perceptions of these competencies than were medi
cal students' perceptions of competencies important for nursing as see
n by nursing students, Gaps in perceptions of each others' roles were
significantly negatively related to attitudes toward collaborative pat
ient care decision making. Copyright (C) 1995 by W.B. Saunders Company