Abstract
Nursing programs must be able to recruit and successfully train future nurses in a timely manner. However, some students, appearing adequately prepared in application materials, do not move successfully through baccalaureate nursing education, pass the licensing exam, and enter the nursing profession. Nursing students enter into a strictly prescribed curriculum leaving little time for traditional college environment socialization. Unveiling factors leading to greater persistence to degree attainment will ultimately lead to more nursing graduates needed to counter the current nursing shortage. One Midwestern program recently (2003-2004) lost 28% of incoming junior-level nursing students in the first two semesters (C. Horton, personal communication, September 15, 2004). As accrediting agencies base certification on many measures, including attrition rates, this is a disturbing trend. This study examined a subset of data representing nursing students from a nationally recognized longitudinal data set for indicators of social factors with potential impact on student persistence in the nursing field of study. Results demonstrate that several social factors, when coupled with student input characteristics such as need for math remediation and feelings of being overwhelmed, share in the variance among groups of nursing students who persist in the field of study and those who leave nursing as a field of study. The most highly correlated variable related to persistence in the nursing field of study was student's perceptions of faculty respect. This is a variable that is able to be manipulated in an effort to limit attrition of upper division nursing students.
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Delta
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Other
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Nursing Education, Attrition, Peer Support, Academic Performance
Advisor
Marc Mahlios
Second Advisor
Dongbin Kim
Third Advisor
Phillip McKnight
Fourth Advisor
Anita Wingate
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
University of Kansas
Degree Year
2007
Recommended Citation
Wilcox, Jeana R., "Implications of varying levels of social support and peer involvement on the success of baccalaureate level nursing students" (2024). Dissertations. 547.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/547
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None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2024-05-09
Full Text of Presentation
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Description
This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3258690; ProQuest document ID: 304847181. The author still retains copyright.