Buddies help find the way
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Buddies help find the way

Helen Allan Director of the University of Surrey centre for research in nursing and midwifery education and Sally Parr is an NHS counsellor, The authors would like to thank all the students who participated in the project

Learning in practice can put too much emphasis on self-sufficiency, say Helen Allan and Sally Parr

‘We were given a map of the hospital and told to find our own way,’ is one comment from a third-year student nurse recalling her experience of a first-year placement.

Nursing Standard. 24, 26, 69-69. doi: 10.7748/ns.24.26.69.s53

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