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Focus on ...'Felicity Stockwell'
Celebrated nurse author Felicity Stockwell uses Nursing Standard’s first webcast to call for better care for patients – and for nurses.
When she first published her research in the 1970s nurses rejected her thesis on ‘The Unpopular Patient’. Today it is considered one of the most influential pieces of nursing research .
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