Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 879-885 , November 2009

Evaluating the learning experience of non medical prescribing students with their designated medical practitioners in their period of learning in practice: Results of a survey

,Accepted 11 May 2009.

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PII: S0260-6917(09)00096-3

doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.05.004

Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 879-885 , November 2009