Baccalaureate nursing education: students' perceptions of roles, effort, and performance.

This study analyzed differences in the perceptions of three groups of nursing students regarding their total role investment, quality of effort, and nursing performance. One hundred ninety-four senior baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in generic or RN completion programs responded to a questionnaire containing three measurements: The Total Role Investment Scale, Pace's College Questionnaire, and Lubno's modified version of Schwirian's Six-Dimension Scale of Nursing Performance. Significant differences were found among the three groups of students in biographical data, total role involvement, quality of effort, and nursing performance. Quality of effort and total role investment were the best predictors of nursing performance. The type of baccalaureate nursing program was not a significant predictor of nursing performance.