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Nursing student attrition: are we losing the battle?

A quarter of all UK nursing students fail to complete their degree studies in one go
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- @StephJonesBerry
Posted 04 September 2019 - 00:01
A young woman with a book and a satchel outside a building with her head in her hands. One in four student nurses leave before the end of their degree. Picture: iStock
 
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