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Archive > May, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 5

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Nursing Schools Must Do Their Part
Re: "Young Nurses and the Death Spiral" (April, page 6). The nursing schools have let our young people down by not having them get a rotation through the OR. Also the curriculum in nursing schools is not preparing them for the real world of nursing. It is sad that you can go to 4 years of nursing school and not be able to function in just the basic nursing issues.

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