Engelsk titel: Dropout and stopout in nursing education - a challenge
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Författare:
Kloster T
Email: torill.kloster@hive.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 21
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 05093271
Sammanfattning
All students starting nursing education
in August 2001 at Vestfold
University College were asked to
take part of a longitudinal study.
They were invited to fill in a questionnaire
consisting of demographic
data, data related to motivation,
expectation to the nursing
programme and study habit in the
beginning of their study (phase
one). When the second phase of
the longitudinal study started at
the end of the three year educational
programme, 24 of 76 students
were no longer on the
class-list. Why?
The aim of this study was to
explore how many nursing students
dropped out or prolonged
their study (stopout). When did
they leave, how long did they stay
out, who were they and for what
reasons did they leave? What can
the nursing university college do
to prevent or reduce the leaving
rate? An explorative, descriptive
design with open-ended interviews
was used. The interviews
were mostly conducted by phone.
The results showed that of 76 students,
8 dropped out, 13 used
more than three years and 3 students
finished their nursing education
in three years in another
university college. With the exception
of academic failure and clinical
experience there was no
single contributing factor that
made the students dropout or stopout,
but factors such as pregnancy,
sickness, personal crises
and economy were identified.