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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 806543, 9 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/806543
Review Article

Perceived Barriers to Success for Minority Nursing Students: An Integrative Review

Collette Loftin,1 Susan D. Newman,2 Bonnie P. Dumas,2 Gail Gilden,2 and Mary Lou Bond3

1Department of Nursing, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX 79016, USA
2College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
3College of Nursing, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA

Received 7 March 2012; Accepted 1 April 2012

Academic Editors: S. Keeney and B. Roberts

Copyright © 2012 Collette Loftin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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