Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 218-223 , April 2010

“We should be able to bear our patients in our teaching in some way”: Theoretical perspectives on how nurse teachers manage their emotions to negotiate the split between education and caring practice

  • Pam Smith

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  • T. Helen Allan

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,Accepted 15 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.12.015

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 218-223 , April 2010

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