Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 279-284 , May 2010

The supervision of professional doctorates: Experiences of the processes and ways forward

,Accepted 2 March 2009.

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PII: S0260-6917(09)00056-2

doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.03.004

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 279-284 , May 2010