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Vickous, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Nursing student attrition is of ongoing concern to programs of nursing and healthcare employers given the persistent shortage of nurses. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the perceptions of ten graduates from two cohorts of a Pre-Licensure Program of Nursing regarding the impact of program-level and college-wide practices…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Higher Education, Success, Academic Persistence
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Hendricks, Susan M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1996
A case study of a college nursing program reveals the politics of planning in higher education and the need to be aware of power relations, negotiated interests, and ethical issues in order to effect meaningful change for students. (SK)
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Ethics, Higher Education, Networks
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Schmidt, Cheryl Klouzal – Journal of School Health, 1981
In a clinical experience program, each nursing student was to select one school-age client with a chronic impairment and develop a nursing care plan. Both the teaching staff and nursing students found the program to be beneficial. (JN)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Needs Assessment
Baldwin, Fred D. – Appalachia, 1993
Describes a two-year nursing program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (Pennsylvania) that was developed 15 years ago to address the critical shortage of trained nurses in rural northern Pennsylvania. To date, the program has graduated 269 students, of which approximately 75% have taken jobs within the region. (LP)
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Opportunities, Health Services, Higher Education
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Hale, Shirley L.; Boyd, Beverly T. – Nursing Outlook, 1981
Nursing faculty from 35 programs met at workshops to discuss problems of admission policies and curriculum design for the increasing number of RNs seeking a BSN degree. Items of concern included the identification of critical issues, curriculum design models, curriculum revision, faculty and administrator attitudes, and student needs. (CT)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Students, Bachelors Degrees, Curriculum Design
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Hill, Mike; Fergy, Sue; Marks-Maran, Di – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2006
The School of Nursing, part of the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences within Kingston University/St George's, University of London, has undertaken a number of initiatives to address the widening participation agenda. The student life-cycle underpins the framework for the university's widening participation strategy and activities. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Case Studies, Universities
Ryden, Muriel B.; Duckett, Laura – 1991
The final report of a 3-year project which involved the development, implementation, and evaluation of Multi-Course Sequential Learning, a model for integrating ethics education into the curriculum of the undergraduate programs in nursing at the University of Minnesota (UM) in Minneapolis is provided. The project focused on nursing students…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Faculty Development, Higher Education