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Nearly 400,000 nurses work in the health service, most of them in hospital. Training to be a registered nurse takes three years and to be an enrolled nurse two years, but this latter qualification is being phased out. All nurses are answerable to the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, which is responsible for standards in education, professional regulation and the protection of the public.
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Crompton, S. (1994). Nurses. In: Crompton, S. (eds) The Carers Guide. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13869-2_13
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