Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 635-640 , August 2009

Mature students’ experiences of undergraduate nurse education programmes: The Irish experience

  • Frances O’Brien

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  • Brian Keogh

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,Accepted 14 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.01.008

Nurse Education Today
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