Nurse Education Today
Volume 28, Issue 1 , Pages 100-107 , January 2008

Matching purpose with practice: Revolutionising nurse education with mita

  • Margaret Denny

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road Campus, Waterford, Ireland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +353 51 302816.
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  • Ellen F. Weber

      Affiliations

    • Director of MITA Center for Brain Based Education Renewal, P.O. Box 347, Pittsford, NY 14534, United States
    • Tel.: +1 585 421 3656.
    web address
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  • John Wells

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road Campus, Waterford, Ireland
    • Tel.: +353 51 302816.
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  • Olga Redmond Stokes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road Campus, Waterford, Ireland
    • Tel.: +353 51 302816.
  • ,
  • Paula Lane

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road Campus, Waterford, Ireland
    • Tel.: +353 51 302816.
  • ,
  • Suzanne Denieffe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road Campus, Waterford, Ireland

,Accepted 6 March 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2007.03.004

Nurse Education Today
Volume 28, Issue 1 , Pages 100-107 , January 2008