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Overcoming barriers to role transition during an online post LPN to BN program

,Accepted 7 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2010.06.002

Nurse Education in Practice
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 31-35 , January 2011