Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 64-69 , March 2010

A systematic review evaluating the impact of post-registration nursing and midwifery education on practice

,Accepted 20 March 2009.

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☆ This paper was presented at the 2nd International Nurse Education Conference Research and Innovation in International Nurse Education 9-11 June, 2008, Dublin, Ireland

PII: S1471-5953(09)00064-X

doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2009.03.011

Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 64-69 , March 2010

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