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Nursing student attrition: what’s happening to the COVID-19 cohort?
Nursing Standard investigation suggests 33% of nursing students who began courses in 2018 did not graduate in 2021, as pandemic and cost of living added to pressures
Alison Stacey
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Posted 16 September 2022 - 11:00
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