Careering ahead
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Careering ahead

Susanne Cruickshank @Sue_Cruickshank Chair, RCN cancer and breast care forum

Finding your feet in your first nursing job is like being on an emotional roller coaster ride – full of thrills and spills

It is that time of year when newly qualified doctors and nurses begin their careers in the NHS. As a mother of a junior doctor, and a teacher to 14 nursing students, I have never been more acutely aware of the emotional roller coaster that precedes a first job.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 16, 7, 11-11. doi: 10.7748/cnp.16.7.11.s16

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