Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 623-629 , August 2009

Towards a team-based, collaborative approach to embedding e-learning within undergraduate nursing programmes

  • Robin J. Kiteley

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
    • Tel.: +44 1484 473619; fax: +44 1484 472794.
    • ,
  • Graham Ormrod

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1484 473461; fax: +44 1484 473199.

,Accepted 24 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.01.010

Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 623-629 , August 2009

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