Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 333-337 , May 2010

Masters at work: A narrative inquiry into the experiences of mental health nurses qualifying with an undergraduate Masters degree

,Accepted 3 September 2009.

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Nurse Education Today
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