Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 7 , Pages 623-630 , October 2010

Identifying priorities for establishing bilingual provision in nurse education: A scoping study

  • Gwerfyl W. Roberts

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Health Related Research, College of Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2EF, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 01248 383165; fax: +44 01248 383114.
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  • Fiona E. Irvine

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health and Applied Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L2 2ER, UK
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  • Siobhan Tranter

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Health Related Research, College of Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2EF, UK
    • ,
  • Llinos H. Spencer

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Health Related Research, College of Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2EF, UK

,Accepted 3 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.12.011

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 7 , Pages 623-630 , October 2010

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