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So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Dr Nicky Genders. It was first published in April 2022.

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The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Course image: Phynart Studio/Getty Images

Introduction: Nurse team in hospital corridor: Sturti/Getty Images

Section 2: Hands holding globe: sasirin pamai/Getty Images

Section 4: Nurse holding patient’s hand: LaylaBird/Getty Images

Section 8.1: Boy talking at therapy: Motortion/Getty Images

Audio/Video

Section 2, Activity 2, Video 1: Courtesy: Nursing and Midwifery Council www.nmc.org.uk https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=WGbT8EKP-2I

Section 4, Activity 7, Video 3: courtesy www.downssideup.com

Section 5, Activity 8, Video 4: Courtesy: Nursing and Midwifery Council https://www.nmc.org.uk/

Section 5, Activity 8, Video 5: Courtesy: Nursing and Midwifery Council https://www.nmc.org.uk/

Section 7, Activity 10, Video 6: NHS England Youth Forum NHS England and NHS Improvement https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IPrIg12SO-E

Section 8.1, Video 7: courtesy Royal College of Nursing https://www.rcn.org.uk/

Section 8.2, Video 8: courtesy: Royal College of Nursing https://www.rcn.org.uk/

Section 8.3, Video 9: courtesy: Royal College of Nursing https://www.rcn.org.uk/

Section 8.4, Video 10: courtesy Royal College of Nursing https://www.rcn.org.uk/

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