Clinical placements: how do we get the quality and quantity we need?
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Clinical placements: how do we get the quality and quantity we need?

Nick Evans Health journalist

Ambitions to boost nurse numbers by increasing the size of the student cohort are surely doomed to fail if the shortage of good quality clinical placements is not addressed

Clinical placements are a vital part of nurse training, with students spending half their degree course on the front line learning what the job entails.

Nursing Standard. 38, 8, 51-54. doi: 10.7748/ns.38.8.51.s19

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