Nurse Education Today
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 98-104 , February 2004

The approaches to learning of support workers employed in the care home sector: an evaluation study

,Accepted 2 October 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2003.10.002

Nurse Education Today
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