Highly qualified and highly ambitious: Implications for workforce retention of realising the career expectations of graduate nurses in England

Human Resource Management Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 287-312

  Robinson, Sarah ^a   Murrells, Trevor ^a   Clinton, Michael ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33745300805     PISSN: 09545395     EISSN: 09545395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2006.00015.x     Document Type: Article

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