Levshankova Catriona, Hirons Debra, Kirton Jennifer A, Knighting Katherine, Jinks Annette M
Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom.
Evidence-based Practice Research Centre, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom.
Nurse Educ Today. 2018 Jan;60:151-156. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.10.006. Epub 2017 Nov 2.
High levels of non-attendance are reported in nurse education programmes even though literal interpretation of UK national guidelines implies mandatory student attendance is a requirement for all elements of pre-registration undergraduate programmes.
To examine relationships between undergraduate student nurse non-attendance, academic performance and progression.
A quantitative study using audit approaches was undertaken.
The records of 1347 undergraduate student nurses who had studied at a university in the north west of England were analysed.
Following data coding and input into an SPSS database descriptive and chi-square analyses were conducted to explore the associations between non-attendance rates and age, sex, entry qualifications, year of study and degree classification.
The characteristics of the sample were that the majority were female, aged under 21years and had 'A' level entry qualifications. Significant chi-square associations were found in regard of age at entry and entry qualifications with degree classification. Significant chi-square associations were also identified between degree classification and non-attendance across all three years of the programme.
The findings that non-attendance is positively associated with degree outcome across all the three years of study are in keeping with the findings of several studies. Many of these findings will help inform future student attendance policies where the study was conducted and are insightful for other national and international institutions that offer nurse education programmes.
尽管对英国国家指南的字面解释意味着强制学生出勤是本科预注册课程所有内容的一项要求，但护士教育项目中仍有高缺勤率的报告。
研究本科护生缺勤、学业成绩与学业进展之间的关系。
采用审计方法进行定量研究。
对在英格兰西北部一所大学学习的1347名本科护生的记录进行了分析。
在对数据进行编码并输入SPSS数据库后，进行描述性分析和卡方分析，以探讨缺勤率与年龄、性别、入学资格、学习年份和学位等级之间的关联。
样本的特征是大多数为女性，年龄在21岁以下，具有“A”级入学资格。在入学年龄和入学资格与学位等级方面发现了显著的卡方关联。在该课程的所有三年中，学位等级与缺勤之间也发现了显著的卡方关联。
在所有三年学习中缺勤与学位结果呈正相关的研究结果与多项研究的结果一致。这些研究结果中的许多将有助于为开展该研究的地方制定未来的学生出勤政策提供信息，并且对其他提供护士教育项目的国家和国际机构具有参考价值。
