Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 707-712 , November 2010

What is provided and what the registered nurse needs — bioscience learning through the pre-registration curriculum

,Accepted 10 January 2010.

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Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 8 , Pages 707-712 , November 2010

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