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Supporting students with disabilities – Promoting understanding amongst mentors in practice

,Accepted 20 March 2011.

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☆ This paper was presented at the NETNEP 2010 3rd International Nurse Education Conference – Nursing Education in a Global Community: collaboration and networking for the future, 11–14th April 2010, Sydney, Australia.

PII: S1471-5953(11)00060-6

doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2011.03.020

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