Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 91-99 , January 2009

Factors influencing the utilisation of e-learning in post-registration nursing students

  • Helen McVeigh

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,Accepted 1 July 2008.

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Nurse Education Today
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