Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 239-244 , April 2010

On the precipice of great things: The current state of UK nurse education

  • Julie Taylor

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dundee, 11 Airlie Place, Dundee DD1 4HJ, Scotland, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1382 388532; fax: +44 1382 388533.
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  • Fiona Irvine

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health and Applied Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, England, UK
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  • Caroline Bradbury-Jones

      Affiliations

    • School of Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University, Wales, UK
    • ,
  • Hugh McKenna

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK

,Accepted 19 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.10.013

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 239-244 , April 2010

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