Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 153-157 , May 2010

International student nurses’ experiences of clinical practice in the Finnish health care system

,Accepted 26 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2009.05.009

Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 153-157 , May 2010

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