Developing a national computerised absence monitoring and management system to reduce nursing student attrition: Evaluation of staff and student perspectives

Currie, Kay; McCallum, Jacqueline; Murray, John; Scott, Janine; Strachan, Evelyn; Yates, Lynda; Wright, Marty

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2013.08.006

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“…In his seminal work on attrition, Tinto focused on first-year withdrawal (Tinto, 1994;Tinto & Goodsell, 1993). Currie et al (2014) provided numerous descriptions including failing to enrol, enrolling but failing to attend class and so on. In the UK, student retention generally refers to the extent to which learners remain within a higher education institution, completing a programme of study in a pre-determined time period (Jones, 2008).…”

Section: The Wi Ck Ed Prob Lem Of S Tudent At Triti Onmentioning

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“…Understanding the complexity of causative factors that impact on an individual student's learning experiences and thus engagement can be challenging (Currie et al., 2014 ). With a more traditional approach to problem‐solving, many of the challenges could appear as peripheral or outside the sphere of influence of the academic manager charged with addressing student retention.…”

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The wicked problem of healthcare student attrition

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The early withdrawal of students from healthcare education programmes, particularly nursing, is an international concern and, despite considerable investment, retention rates have remained stagnant. Here, a regional study of healthcare student retention is used as an example to frame the challenge of student attrition using a concept from policy development, wicked problem theory. This approach allows the consideration of student attrition as a complex problem derived from the interactions of many interrelated factors, avoiding the pitfalls of small‐scale interventions and over‐simplistic assumptions of cause and effect. A conceptual framework is proposed to provide an approach to developing actions to reduce recurrent investment in interventions that have previously proved ineffective at large scale. We discuss how improvements could be achieved through integrated stakeholder involvement and acceptance of the wicked nature of attrition as a complex and ongoing problem.

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“…Moreover, high attrition rates in nursing education are an international concern. In Finland, the dropout rate is 9% (Kukkonen et al, 2016), the number varies from 3% to 60% in the UK, depending on the institution (Currie et al, 2014), up to 30% of students leave nursing education programmes in the United States, and in South Africa, dropout rates over 50% have been reported (Roos et al, 2016). The reasons for attrition vary; however, two of the common reasons identified are a wrong career choice (Kukkonen et al, 2016) and an unrealistic perception of the profession (Chan et al, 2019; Kukkonen et al, 2016).…”

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Development and psychometric testing of the perception of nursing profession instrument

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Journal of Advanced Nursing

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BackgroundPerceptions of the nursing profession influence career choices in nursing. An unrealistic perception might lead students to drop out of nursing education programmes. Objective measurement of the nursing applicants' perceptions at the student selection stage could enhance their career choices in nursing.AimTo develop and psychometrically evaluate the Perception of Nursing Profession Instrument (PNPI).DesignMixed method design.MethodTwo versions of the PNPI were developed during the years 2016–2022. The first version was based on documents describing the nursing profession and the second version was based on an integrative literature review, a focus groups study and a document analysis of descriptions of the nursing profession. The meta‐ethnographic approach was used to synthesize the results and form a theoretical framework for developing the PNPI (60 items). Item content validity was evaluated by an expert panel of nurses (n = 7). The psychometric properties of the instrument were analysed using the item response theory approach.ResultsThe development process resulted in the 40‐item PNPI with the following subscales: the content of nursing work, the career in nursing, the nature of nursing work and the characteristics of a nurse. The psychometric analysis revealed unidimensionality and goodness of fit to the partial credit model; however, the item difficulty was not well matched with the participants' abilities.ConclusionThe PNPI is a novel instrument for objectively measuring perceptions of the nursing profession. For further development, item difficulty must be enhanced to improve the measurement accuracy of the nursing applicants' perceptions of the nursing profession.ImpactPerceptions of the nursing profession influence career choices, but there is a lack of objective assessment instruments that can be used in nursing student selection setting to measure the perception. The results of this study offer an instrument to measure perception, while also suggesting ideas for further development.

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“…Bean(1982) defined attrition as a closure and withdrawal of student's enrollment from an institution (Bean, 1982). Similarly, (Currie et al, 2014) refer attrition as a student leaving their course without completing (graduating), getting their registered and attending their classes but failing to pass into the next semester (Currie et al, 2014).However , Tinto (1982 ) argued some scholar's conclusions that state the term attrition direct with connecting to failure or inability of a person to pass into the following year or the reverse is true. Besides, he suggested that there is a need for a careful selection of the definition that could place the interest and the aims of a particular study (Tinto, 1982).…”

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Assessment on Factors Causing Female Students Attrition at Haramaya University, Ethiopia

Ali¹

2019

SCIRJ

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Although numerous studies have been recording on the enhancement of female student's enrolment in higher education's of Ethiopia, much remains unknown about the striking gap of gender disparity between the enrollment and graduation rates of female students due to the excessive attrition rates at the tertiary level. This study aims to assess factors that causing female students attrition at Haramaya University. Methods to collect the data were conducted using quantitative a structured questionnaire that was distributed to the sample of female students who attend education in the College of Social Science and Humanities in the year 2016/17. Whereas, the qualitative method was held by using an in-depth interview with key personnel that contributes valuable information towards the causing factors of attrition among female students at Haramaya University. The data analyzed was a quantitative data analysis technique, such as descriptive statistics that were employed to present and summaries the data using tables. The study found a critical event in life ( pregnancy, significant person death), Tension, and separation from family as the top three personal factors for female student's attrition. Among the challenging factors in the university environment, adjustment problems with campus life(environment), influence from senior friends, instructors, and other staff members have identified as a reason for dropout. Lack of transparent grading, difficult of education as well as using assessment techniques were the top three reasons for attrition in the academic aspect.

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Developing a national computerised absence monitoring and management system to reduce nursing student attrition: Evaluation of staff and student perspectives

Cited by 10 publications

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The wicked problem of healthcare student attrition

The wicked problem of healthcare student attrition

Development and psychometric testing of the perception of nursing profession instrument

Assessment on Factors Causing Female Students Attrition at Haramaya University, Ethiopia

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