Terry Daniel, Peck Blake
School of Nursing & Healthcare Professions, Federation University, University Drive, Mt Helen, PO Box 663, Ballarat, Victoria 3353, Australia.
Nurse Educ Today. 2020 Feb 19;88:104371. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104371.
Nursing is both a science and an art and requires students to develop sound scientific foundations for artful application. The at times binary nature of how the way in which the knowledge and skills of nursing are delivered in higher education can be difficult for students to comprehend initially and synchronise for practice and can lead to feelings of being overwhelmed, withdrawal or failure. Understanding what influences student performance in bachelor level nursing studies is imperative so educators can develop programs that straddle the art and science conundrum and lead to graduate success. Grit is a non-cognitive trait, a drive that keeps an individual on task through difficult circumstances for sustained periods of time. Grit might well represent a key factor in our understanding of why one student succeeds while another withdraws.
To examine measures of grit in the context of demographic characteristics of nursing students and their impact on student self-perceived academic and clinical performance.
A cross-sectional design.
A single School of Nursing at a multi-campus, regional, peri-urban Australian University.
All nursing students (n = 2349) studying a three-year bachelor of nursing degree were invited to participate.
Data were collected using a questionnaire that included several demographic items, questions relating to the student's perceived level of academic and clinical performance, and the eight-item Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) used to measure trait-level perseverance and passion for long-term goals.
Students, regardless of their year of study or any other demographic factor, showed grit was the only significant predictor of clinical and academic performance.
The strength between grit and perceived performance both academically and clinically, makes grit a valuable factor for development in students as a vehicle for success in nursing programs of study. This paper culminates in suggestions for creative approaches to grit development.
护理既是一门科学也是一门艺术，要求学生建立扎实的科学基础以便巧妙应用。高等教育中护理知识和技能的传授方式有时具有二元性，这可能使学生起初难以理解，也难以同步应用于实践，进而导致他们产生不堪重负、退缩或失败的感觉。了解哪些因素影响本科护理专业学生的学业表现至关重要，这样教育工作者才能制定出兼顾艺术与科学难题的课程，从而使学生顺利毕业。毅力是一种非认知特质，是一种能让个体在困难环境中持续专注于任务的动力。毅力很可能是我们理解为何有的学生成功而有的学生却退出的关键因素。
研究护理专业学生人口统计学特征背景下的毅力指标及其对学生自我感知的学业和临床成绩的影响。
横断面设计。
澳大利亚一所多校区、位于地区及城郊的大学中的一个护理学院。
所有攻读三年制护理学学士学位的护理专业学生（n = 2349）均受邀参与。
通过问卷调查收集数据，问卷包括若干人口统计学项目、与学生自我感知的学业和临床成绩水平相关的问题，以及用于测量特质水平的毅力和对长期目标的热情的八项简短毅力量表（Grit-S）。
无论就读年份或任何其他人口统计学因素如何，学生们都表明毅力是临床和学业成绩的唯一重要预测因素。
毅力与学业和临床感知成绩之间的关联，使毅力成为学生发展中的一个重要因素，是护理专业学习取得成功的一个推动因素。本文最后提出了培养毅力的创新方法建议。
