Nursing student profiles and occurrence of early academic failure: Findings from an explorative European study

Dante, Angelo; Ferrão, Sónia; Jarošová, Darja; Lancia, Loreto; Nascimento, Carla; Notara, Venetia; Pokorná, Andrea; Rybarova, Lubica; Skela-Savič, Brigita; Palese, Alvisa

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2015.12.013

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“…Our CALD students reported a heterogeneous profile for age, country of origin, and with working and family responsibilities, similarly to those reported in previous studies performed in other countries (Koch et al, 2015). Moreover, participants were generally older, mostly female, working and reporting academic failures more often as compared with their Italian peers (Dante et al, 2016;Dante, Fabris, & Palese, 2015), confirming that CALD students are more vulnerable.…”

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The Lived Experience of Nursing Students with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds in Italy: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study

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Introduction: In recent decades, Italy has been exposed to significant migrant flows resulting from political and economic instability in neighbouring countries. As a result, there has been an increased amount of cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD) among nursing students. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of CALD nursing students as lived in the Italian nursing programmes. Method: A descriptive phenomenological method was used in 2017 with the involvement of a purposeful sample of 21 CALD nursing students in five Italian Bachelor of Nursing Science campuses. Data were collected using semistructured interviews; the subsequent content analysis was conducted by two independent researchers. Results: CALD nursing students reported having lived a transformative experience based on seven themes, from “living in the middle, between belonging and detachment” to “acquiring cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity.” Discussion: Dealing with linguistic and cultural differences can affected CALD students’ academic success, but also encourages them to develop awareness and cultural sensitivity by influencing their peers and the environment of the nursing programme. Therefore, having CALD students is a great value for nursing programmes. Nursing programmes should embody the values of cultural sensitivity and acceptance, including them as a nursing care value and as a concrete strategy to support CALD students. They should also develop strategies to promote the knowledge and responsibilities of nurses among CALD students and increase cultural sensitivity among faculty members at different levels.

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The Lived Experience of Nursing Students with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds in Italy: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study

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“…Participants’ characteristics were in line with the Italian nursing degree context (Dante et al, 2016). Specifically, approximately 40% of the participants had delayed their progress in nursing education and thus required more than three years to complete their degree, which is a homogeneous proportion that had previously been documented (Dante, Fabris, & Palese, 2015).…”

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Development and initial validation of a theory of planned behaviour questionnaire to assess the nursing students' Intention to be self‐employed

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Background Self‐employment represents a new work opportunity for new nursing graduates; however, little is known about nursing students’ Intention to meet this new demand from the labour market. Aims To develop a theory‐driven questionnaire to assess students’ Intentions for self‐employment and psychometrically test this scale. Method A cross‐sectional study was conducted investigating 344 nursing students in their final year in an Italian university. The content, face, construct, convergent and discriminant validity, and reliability were evaluated. We also tested the theory of planned behaviour. Results The Planned Self‐Employment Scale demonstrated satisfactory validity and good reliability. A moderate Intention to be self‐employed emerged among nurses (3.6 ± 1.5 out of 7). This level of Intention was predicted by the Attitudes and Perceived Behaviour Control dimensions. Conclusion The Planned Self‐Employment Scale exhibited good validity and reliability and can thus be used with nursing students. Implications for Nursing Management Educators need to design a curriculum to improve students’ decision‐making and autonomy. At the central level, there is a need to produce guidelines that offer guidance to both nurses and patients, as well as the system as a whole with regard to this new form of nursing service.

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“…Students experiencing financial hardship are also more likely to drop out. This can be explained by the need to spend more hours in paid work (Dante et al 2016), but it may also be due to the fact that coming from a disadvantaged background generally means a lower level of familiarity with scientific discourses. As Halliday and Martin point out (1993: 4), students may find scientific English "alienating", especially if the expectation about nursing was that it was just "commonsense" or "women's work" in the most pejorative sense, a perception shared by a substantial percentage of new entrants to the discipline (Brodie et al 2004).…”

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An exploratory account of the register of nursing textbooks

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2019

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Given the pressing issues that affect nursing education (e.g. higher attrition and plagiarism rates), this study aims to obtain initial insight on whether nursing textbooks meet the demands of their context of situation. These demands could be listed as: construing biomedical knowledge, establishing a pattern of evidence-based nursing practice and promoting the values of person-centred care. For this analysis, I draw on aspects of parameters of context developed by Hasan (2004), Butt (2004) and Matthiessen (2015), and relate them to their semantic and lexicogrammatical realisation across different metafunctions using corpus-based techniques and detailed manual analysis of short extracts. The results may suggest that nursing textbooks may be meeting the demands of nursing as a research-based discipline but failing to model empathetic communication.

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Nursing student profiles and occurrence of early academic failure: Findings from an explorative European study

Cited by 34 publications

References 41 publications

The Lived Experience of Nursing Students with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds in Italy: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study

The Lived Experience of Nursing Students with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds in Italy: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study

Development and initial validation of a theory of planned behaviour questionnaire to assess the nursing students' Intention to be self‐employed

An exploratory account of the register of nursing textbooks

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