O'Donnell Hugh
School of Nursing and Midwifery, The Queen's University, Belfast.
Br J Nurs. 2009;18(12):745-7, 750, 752-4.
Nursing student attrition continues to attract political, organizational and social interest for a number of reasons including: persistent nursing shortages, the age profile of the current nursing population and the economic cost of attrition. While attrition in nursing students is not a new phenomenon, it is surprising that this issue has attracted such little research attention obtained from students who persist, rather than the experiences of students who have withdrawn from pre-registration nursing courses. The emotional impact on students who decide to voluntarily leave has attracted limited theoretical analysis, so a single case study design was selected to help explain the causes of voluntary attrition in nursing students within a School of Nursing and Midwifery. A semi-structured interview method was used to collect data from study participants. The study population was obtained through purposeful sampling and consisted of 15 students who had previously voluntarily withdrawn from pre-registration nursing programmes. The articles describes the range of emotions which many students experienced and the process of gradual disengagement which may precede student decisions to formally withdraw.
由于多种原因，护理专业学生流失问题持续引发政治、组织和社会关注，这些原因包括：护理人才持续短缺、当前护理人员的年龄结构以及流失造成的经济成本。虽然护理专业学生流失并非新现象，但令人惊讶的是，这个问题从坚持下来的学生那里获得的研究关注极少，而不是从退出预注册护理课程的学生的经历中获取。对决定自愿离开的学生的情感影响进行的理论分析有限，因此选择了单一案例研究设计，以帮助解释护理与助产学院内护理专业学生自愿流失的原因。采用半结构化访谈方法从研究参与者那里收集数据。研究对象通过目的抽样获得，包括15名先前自愿退出预注册护理课程的学生。本文描述了许多学生经历的一系列情感，以及在学生决定正式退出之前可能出现的逐渐脱离过程。
