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Nursing student retention : understanding the process and making a difference / Marianne R. Jeffreys.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffreys, Marianne R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing school dropouts--United States--Prevention.
- Nursing school dropouts.
- Nursing students--United States--Psychology.
- Nursing students.
- Nursing--Study and teaching--United States.
- Nursing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 310 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer Pub., c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the current nursing shortage, student retention is a priority concern for nurse educators, health care institutions, and the patients they serve. This book presents an organizing framework for understanding student retention, identifying at-risk students, and developing both diagnostic-prescriptive strategies to facilitate success and innovations in teaching and educational research. The author's conceptual model for student retention, ""Nursing Undergraduate Retention and Success,"" is interwoven throughout, along with essential information for developing, implementing, and evaluating rete
- Contents:
- Overview of student retention
- Student profile characteristics
- Cultural values and beliefs, self-efficacy, and motivation : important considerations
- Academic factors
- Environmental factors
- Professional integration and socialization
- Academic and psychological outcomes
- The outside climate : forecast, impact, and action
- Dropout, stopout, or go on?
- Nursing faculty advisement and helpfulness : a culturally congruent approach
- Expanding the web of inclusion through professional events and memberships
- Promoting positive and productive peer partnerships
- Enrichment program design, implementation, and evaluation
- The nursing student resource center: a place for linking strategies together
- Future directions : a vision for tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-81333-8
- 9786611813338
- 0-8261-3446-7
- OCLC:
- 476263538
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