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A nurse enters the Covid-19 Red Zone at Glan Clwyd Hospital, in Rhyl, Wales, in May 2020. Getty Images
A nurse enters the Covid-19 Red Zone at Glan Clwyd Hospital, in Rhyl, Wales, in May 2020. Getty Images
Like many nurses, I began my journey into research at a bedside
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Margaret Helen Shepherd
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Nurse Margaret Helen Shepherd is associate director for Nursing Research and a consultant nurse at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. She's also a honorary clinical professor of Monogenic Diabetes at the University of Exeter in the UK
13 May, 2024