Preparing new graduate nurses.
As a requirement of pre-registration nurse education, student nurses must spend roughly 50% of their course, around 2300 hours, on clinical practice on hospital wards to become registered nurses. Lyn Karstadt discusses some of the international attitudes towards clinical placement, and asks whether placement time should be decreased in the UK.
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Hertfordshire.
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