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The importance of managing a career break effectively is how widely recognised. New initiatives aimed at attracting nurses back to work are springing up and developing throughout the UK. Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again.
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Guidelines for Good Practice: return to practice programmes for nurses and health visitors, document PS and D/86/06 (London: UKCC, 1986).
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© 1989 Alison Morton-Cooper
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Morton-Cooper, A. (1989). Introduction. In: Returning to Nursing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10538-0_1
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