Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 7 , Pages 643-648 , October 2010

Moving in circles: A brief history of reports and inquiries relating to mental health content in undergraduate nursing curricula

,Accepted 21 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.12.018

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