Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 20-25 , January 2011

‘The Ward’: A simulation game for nursing students

,Accepted 8 May 2010.

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Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 20-25 , January 2011