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Special Issue: Transforming Nursing in South Africa

‘Practice what you preach’: Nurses’ perspectives on the Code of Ethics and Service Pledge in five South African hospitals

Janine WhiteSchool of Public HealthFaculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Maureen PhakoeCentre for Health Policy & Medical Research Council Health Policy Research Group, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Laetitia C. RispelCentre for Health Policy & Medical Research Council Health Policy Research Group, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Article: 26341 | Received 17 Oct 2014, Accepted 13 Jan 2015, Published online: 11 May 2015

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