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Would counting students’ competencies, not practice hours, sacrifice learning quality?

Nurses and students debate whether replacing practice hours threshold with competency system would be putting quantity before quality for faster qualification

Shruti Sheth Trivedi - @_ShrutiST
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A nurse and nursing student on clinical placement talk at ward computer as nurses debate idea of reducing practice hours

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