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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

Daniel Allen muses on why older nurses might get struck off

So why do more nurses over 40 get struck off than younger ones? Is it, as someone said, because they have done the ‘glamour’ stuff and are now working nights in a nursing home and becoming isolated? Or is it because as we get older we get grumpier and less tolerant? Like me. No one knows.

Nursing Standard. 19, 25, 21-21. doi: 10.7748/ns.19.25.21.s32

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