PREDICTORS OF NATIONAL COUNCIL LICENSURE EXAMINATION PERFORMANCE OF GRADUATES IN UNI-LEVEL ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAMS IN KANSAS.
Contributors: Kansas State University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Graduates of collegiate nursing programs must successfully write a national licensure examination (NCLEX-RN) to be legally eligible to practice as a registered nurse. This study examined the relationship between age, high school rank, high school GPA, marital status, ACT scores and college course grades on performance on the NCLEX-RN and grades in the nursing courses.

Information relating to demographic and cognitive variables was obtained from records of graduates of uni-level associate degree nursing programs (1982 and 1983), to determine the best predictors of performance on the national licensure examination (NCLEX-RN) and in the nursing courses. Married students outperformed their counterparts on the NCLEX-RN. The ACT Social Studies score and high school grade point average were the best predictors of the admission criteria for pass/fail status on the NCLEX-RN. The courses of microbiology, anatomy and physiology, sociology, child psychology and English were the best predictors of the individual college courses. The cumulative college grade point average predicted with moderate accuracy which students passed and which students failed the NCLEX-RN when the GPA's of the other course groupings were in the discriminant analysis. For successful performance in the nursing courses, the ACT Composite score was the only significant admission criteria predictor. The support course grade point average and the microbiology course were found to be the best predictors of performance in the nursing courses when all other cognitive college variables were entered in the regression equation.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-03, Section: B, page: 0793.

Thesis (PH.D.)--KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, 1985.

School code: 0100.