Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 202-207 , February 2010

Understanding student nurse attrition: Learning from the literature

,Accepted 26 July 2009.

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Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 202-207 , February 2010

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