Whistleblowing and student nurses - Are we asking too much?

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 177-178

  Duffy, Kathleen ^a,c   McCallum, Jacqueline ^b,c   Ness, Valerie ^b,c   Price, Lesley ^b,c  

^a NHS LANARKSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84860640045     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2012.04.002     Document Type: Editorial

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