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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

Scientific advancement is not the be all and end all of nursing

When Neil Armstrong stepped on to the moon 30 years ago, I was up a tree. If he thought he was taking a giant leap, he obviously hadn't straddled the large gap between forking boughs half way up the big yew in our garden. The Sea of Tranquility? Easy.

Nursing Standard. 13, 45, 23-23. doi: 10.7748/ns.13.45.23.s34

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