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Should clinical placement hours be cut? Nurses views are divided

Nursing students, nurses and educators take to Twitter to share their opinion on proposal to reduce placement time by 500 hours – and views range from supportive to worried

Alison Stacey - @alibaabra
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Photo of nursing student on a placement - views are divided on whether the number of placement hours should be cut

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