New graduate nurses' experiences in their first year of practice
Nurse Education TodayPublished 31 July 2012
Vicki Parker, Michelle Giles, G. Lantry, Margaret McMillan
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There is an urgent need to develop and test a range of evidence based approaches that will both empower nurses and embed systematic approaches that enable equitable and contextually relevant stewardship of new graduate nurses into the future.
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There is an urgent need to develop and test a range of evidence based approaches that will both empower nurses and embed systematic approaches that enable equitable and contextually relevant stewardship of new graduate nurses into the future.
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