Nurse Education Today
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 408-411 , May 2011

Tell me a story — a conceptual exploration of storytelling in healthcare education

  • Carol Haigh

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 0161 247 5416.
  • ,
  • Pip Hardy

      Affiliations

    • Patient Voices Programme, Pilgrim Projects Limited, 91 Waterbeach Road, Landbeach, Cambridgeshire, UK
    • Tel.: +44 01954 202158.

,Accepted 5 August 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2010.08.001

Nurse Education Today
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 408-411 , May 2011