Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 443-447 , July 2010

A degree of success? Messages from the new social work degree in England for nurse education

  • Jo Moriarty

      Affiliations

    • Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London, Melbourne House, 5th Floor, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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  • Jill Manthorpe

      Affiliations

    • Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London, Melbourne House, 5th Floor, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 020 7848 1683/1782; fax: +44 020 7848 1866.
    • ,
  • Martin Stevens

      Affiliations

    • Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London, Melbourne House, 5th Floor, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
    • ,
  • Shereen Hussein

      Affiliations

    • Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London, Melbourne House, 5th Floor, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
    • ,
  • Gillian MacIntyre

      Affiliations

    • Glasgow School of Social Work, Jordanhill Campus, Sir Henry Wood Building, Glasgow G13 1PP, UK
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  • Joan Orme

      Affiliations

    • Glasgow School of Social Work, Jordanhill Campus, Sir Henry Wood Building, Glasgow G13 1PP, UK
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  • Pam Green Lister

      Affiliations

    • Glasgow School of Social Work, Jordanhill Campus, Sir Henry Wood Building, Glasgow G13 1PP, UK
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  • Endellion Sharpe

      Affiliations

    • Sharpe Research, 7 Broad Hinton Road, London SW4 0LU, UK
    • ,
  • Beth Crisp

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Work, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3217, Australia

,Accepted 1 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.10.003

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