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Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 43-44 , May 2008

Shift-work: Nursing's sometimes silent partner

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doi: 10.1016/j.colegn.2008.03.001

Collegian
Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 43-44 , May 2008