A FIELD STUDY -- STUDENT NURSE ATTRITION.
Contributors: Kansas State University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Education, Health.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The high attrition from nursing education motivated the researcher to conduct a study of five Kansas nursing programs to investigate the reasons for attrition, to identify the characteristics of student nurses who graduate and withdraw and to determine the characteristics that relate to success.

Pre-admission data were collected for 697 AD student nurses which consisted of age, high school GPA and entrance exam scores. Each program's data was analyzed separately due to the different entrance exam requirements. The point bi-serial correlation analysis was performed to identify the differences between the two groups (graduate and non-graduate) at each program and to determine which variable or variables correlated to success. The results of the five programs were compared to see if there were trends for attrition from program to program.

The findings indicated that there were significant differences between the graduate and non-graduate in academic ability and these same variables correlated to success for three programs. However, two of the programs showed no significant differences between the groups and none of the variables correlated to success.

The inference made from the study was that each nursing program needs to conduct a study using other factors specific to that program in order to identify the factors that indicate success for the individual population.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-09, Section: A, page: 2574.

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

School code: 0100.