Predicting Nursing Program Success for Veterans: Examining the Importance of TEAS and Pre-Admit Science GPA

An exploration of the predictive validity of selection criteria on progress outcomes for pre‐registration nursing programmes—A systematic review

“…Twelve studies were carried out in the USA (Newton & Moore, 2009, Díaz et al, 2012, Underwood et al, 2013, Cunningham et al, 2014, Hinderer et al, 2014, Elkins, 2015, Cheshire et al, 2015, Wambuguh et al, 2016, Strickland & Cheshire, 2017, Lui et al, 2018, Tartavoulle et al, 2018, Van Hofwegen et al, 2019). Six were undertaken in the UK (Callwood et al, 2018, 2020; Donaldson et al, 2010; Gale et al, 2016; Rankin, 2013; Traynor et al, 2016).…”

“…Age was reported in 16 of the studies and participants' ages ranged from 19–62 (Van Hofwegen et al, 2019; Traynor et al, 2016). The mean age was documented in most studies and ranged from 21.2–29 (Lui et al, 2018; Sharon & Grinberg, 2018).…”

“…Gender was cited in 16 studies, with males and females present in all samples (Ahmad & Safadi, 2009; Cheshire et al, 2015; Cunningham et al, 2014; Díaz et al, 2012; Elkins, 2015; Gale et al, 2016; Hinderer et al, 2014; Van Hofwegen et al, 2019; Lancia et al, 2013; Pitt et al, 2015; Rankin, 2013; Sharon & Grinberg, 2018; Shulruf et al, 2011; Tartavoulle et al, 2018; Timer & Clauson, 2011; Traynor et al, 2016). Females formed the largest group in most studies apart from Ahmad and Safadi (2009) (58.5% male) and Lancia et al, (2013) (57% male).…”

“…Caucasian students made up the largest percentage in each cohort and ranged from 39% (Van Hofwegen et al, 2019)–99.4% (Rankin, 2013). Other ethnic groups of students reported in the samples were Pakeha (35%) (Shulruf et al, 2011), Asian ranging from 1.8% (Cunningham et al, 2014)–28% (Shulruf et al, 2011) and African American students ranging from 5% (Cheshire et al, 2015)–9.4% (Tartavoulle et al, 2018).…”

“…Two studies were conducted with a more divergent group of students. Shulruf et al, (2011) investigated a cohort of school leavers and Van Hofwegen et al, (2019) focussed on military veterans who had received priority admission into their nursing course. This limits the transferability of these results to other student cohorts, considering the wide variety of pathways into nursing education (Donaldson et al, 2010).…”