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Children's nursing and interprofessional collaboration: challenges and opportunities.
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For the purpose of this essay we will be deciding who contributed the most to medicine out of Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Each of the three contributors played their part in medicine
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Discuss an aspect of health promotion you have seen in practice. Hand Hygiene.
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