Basic nursing is just as important to me as a degree
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Basic nursing is just as important to me as a degree

Hannah Long , Norwich

I am a nursing student coming to the end of my second year and increasingly disheartened by letters and articles in the media saying how poor the quality of students is now, and how we nurses do not wash, dress and feed our patients.

Nursing Standard. 19, 38, 39-39. doi: 10.7748/ns.19.38.39.s45

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