Sadler Judith
Bronson School of Nursing, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA.
Nurse Educ Today. 2003 Nov;23(8):620-7. doi: 10.1016/s0260-6917(03)00112-6.
Nursing school admission selection processes exist to select the "best and brightest" applicants assuming that those selected will be successful. However, attrition occurs. Effectiveness of grade point averages (GPAs) and test scores have been reported, while the effectiveness of essays in predicting attrition in undergraduate nursing education has not been reported in the literature. For the purposes of this study, attrition was defined as students enrolled in courses following acceptance into the program who did not complete the program. Data from a retrospective longitudinal sample including 236 students from one baccalaureate nursing program were analyzed for differences between students who completed the program ("completers", n=193) and those who dropped out ("non-completers", n=43). t-tests between the group mean essay scores revealed a statistical difference (t=2.092, p=0.043), while there was no statistical difference (t=0.22, p=ns) between the mean admission GPAs of the groups. Content analysis revealed thematic differences in the essays. Non-completers tended to write about nursing as external to themselves, in contrast to the completers who described an internalization of the role. Answers to questions of motivation for entering nursing and personal experience with a nurse may provide helpful information in selecting those students most likely to complete the program.
护理学院的招生选拔过程旨在挑选出“最优秀、最聪明”的申请者，假定被选中的人会取得成功。然而，仍会出现学生流失的情况。已有关于平均绩点（GPA）和考试成绩有效性的报道，但论文在预测本科护理教育中学生流失方面的有效性在文献中尚未见报道。在本研究中，流失被定义为已被该项目录取并注册课程但未完成该项目的学生。对一个回顾性纵向样本的数据进行了分析，该样本包括来自一个护理学学士学位项目的236名学生，以比较完成该项目的学生（“完成者”，n = 193）和辍学学生（“未完成者”，n = 43）之间存在的差异。两组平均论文分数的t检验显示存在统计学差异（t = 2.092，p = 0.043），而两组的平均入学GPA之间不存在统计学差异（t = 0.22，p = 无显著性差异）。内容分析揭示了论文中的主题差异。未完成者倾向于将护理描述为自身之外的事物，而完成者则描述了对该角色的内化。关于进入护理专业的动机问题以及与护士的个人经历的回答，可能会为挑选最有可能完成该项目的学生提供有用信息。
