An evaluation of taster days to recruit untrained health care staff to pre-registration mental health nurse education within one UK university

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 556-563

  Rhodes, Sheri ^a   Bouic, Louise ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mental health nursing; Pre registration nursing; Taster days

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144452909     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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