Movement of patients criticised

    Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
    |May 26, 2016
    PubMed

    Fears that the quality of nurse teaching is being affected by the increasing movement of patients between wards were expressed at the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting meeting last week.

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