The cost of clinical placements.
Educational programmes for nurses and the allied professions have increasingly been located within the marketplace through the introduction of educational contracts. But the use of clinical placements and related costs are not addressed within such contractual arrangements. Dawn Forman and Jane Fox assess the advantages and disadvantages.
Forman
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College of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Derby, England.
Fox
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J
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