Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 398-404 , July 2010

Functional clinical placements: A driver for change

  • L. Goddard

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Charles Sturt University, P.O. Box 789, Albury, NSW 2640, Australia
    • University of Western Sydney, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Charles Sturt University, P.O. Box 789, Albury, NSW 2640, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 60 516875, +61 414 811577 (mobile); fax: +61 2 60 516 870.
    • ,
  • S. Mackey

      Affiliations

    • Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Block E3A, Level 3, 7 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117574, Singapore
    • Tel.: +(65) 6516 8686; fax: +(65) 6776 7135.
    • ,
  • P.M. Davidson

      Affiliations

    • Curtin University of Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences Curtin House, 39 Regent St., Chippendale, Sydney 2008, Australia
    • University of Western Sydney, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 2 83997831, +61 (0) 414674134 (mobile); fax: +61 2 83997834.

,Accepted 24 September 2009.

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