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Changing practice: are memes the answer?

R Pediani·M Walsh
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Nurses are insistent that they have a great deal more to offer than being merely doctors handmaidens. This article examines how nursing education and practice can be changed by increasing our knowledge of 'memes'--the cultural equivalent of genes--and the ways traditional beliefs are passed down to generations of nurses.

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R Pediani, M Walsh. Changing practice: are memes the answer?. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2000.03.14.24.36.c2776

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