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Graduating Associate Degree Nursing Students: Keeping Students on Track
… will result in an additional 526,800 registered nursing positions that will be available nationwide by 2022. This qualitative dissertation investigated associate degree nursing students and the strategies they employed to be successful and graduate from their respective nursing program. According …
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Concept-Based Teaching and Meaningful Learning in Associate Degree Nursing Students
… meaningful learning outcomes of first semester associate degree nursing students at a private nursing college in the Midwestern United States. The quantitative strand compared meaningful learning of two groups: students who received concept-based teaching (CBT) and students who received …
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Mentoring as it relates to persistence in associate degree nursing students
<p>Students who are preparing to become registered nurses are more likely to attend community colleges due to the unequal distribution of financial resources to educational systems that have evolved from the impact of globalization. The purpose of this descriptive cross-sectional study was to …
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The Relationship Among Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement, and Age in Associate Degree Nursing Students
… test anxiety, academic achievement and age in Associate Degree Nursing students. To test the relationship among the variables, two hypotheses were posed. Employing a descriptive research design, data were collected through the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI) (Spielberger, et al., 1980) and …
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Cognitive development and the attainment of critical thinking skills in associate degree nursing students
… of critical thinking exhibited by first semester nursing students seeking an Associate Degree (ADN). It also explored the relationship between specific subsets of cognitive development and critical thinking as a whole as well as between cognitive development and the distinct traits that …
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Faculty Advisement and Helpfulness and the Retention of First-Semester Associate Degree Nursing Students
<p>The retention and success of nursing students are essential to address the expected growth in demand for healthcare services. By focusing on success, rather than remediation, nursing students are empowered to reach their full potential. Nursing faculty advisement and helpfulness are essential …
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Variables That Predict Success With Associate Degree Nursing Students At A Community College In Florida
… predicted student persistence and success in an associate degree nursing program in Florida and to investigate the variables in Tinto's Longitudinal Model of Dropout (1975).The sample population (N=304) for this study was students enrolled in one of the initial courses of the associate degree …
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The Relationship between Learning Style Preference and Academic Achievement of Freshmen Associate Degree Nursing Students
… Style Model and academic achievement of freshmen associate degree nursing students. Sixty seven female freshmen nursing students enrolled in a Midwest, private, associate degree nursing program participated in the study. The Productivity Environmental Preference Survey and a demographic …
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A Feasibility Study Utilizing Clinical Simulation as Pedagogical Praxis for Promoting Caring Behaviors with Associate Degree Nursing Students
<p>Background: Nursing students need to be socialized in caring behaviors as evidenced by patient care that is attentive, competent, responsible, and responsive to the care received by the patient. The effect of clinical simulation as pedagogical praxis for defining and promoting caring behaviors …
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Navigating the Rules of Clinical Practicum Work: An Interpretive Study of the Experiences of Associate Degree Nursing Students
… ideas and systems and make them part of the nursing curriculum. Educators develop tools and strategies to help students gain knowledge and skills to work with patients in the clinical setting. The ways in which students use these tools and perceive and manage their clinical work is not …
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Field Dependence and Independence and the Effect of Level of Guidance on Learning Performance for Associate Degree Nursing Students
… (FI). The cognitive styles of 24 female nursing students, who were enrolled in the first year of an associate degree nursing program at a Midwestern community college, were tested using the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT). Students participated in pretest and posttest sessions to …
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The Effects of Linear and Hypertext Computer-Assisted Instruction on the Learning and Attitude of Associate Degree Nursing Students
… learning or knowledge retention to any greater degree than the other, that students tend to have a more favorable attitude toward CAI when given the opportunity to sequence their own instruction, as provided in the hypertext version, that neither version of the CAI treatment was any more …
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The Correlation Between a General Critical Thinking Skills Test and a Discipline Specific Critical Thinking Test For Associate Degree Nursing Students
… as a required outcome for accreditation of associate degree nursing (ADN) programs. Until recently general critical thinking tests were the only available standardized critical thinking assessment tools. The emphasis has shifted to discipline specific tools.This concurrent validity study …
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The identification of behavioral objectives for a human anatomy and physiology course supportive to the associate degree nursing programs in Virginia community colleges
… for a human anatomy and physiology course for associate degree nursing students. To accomplish the purpose,of the study, it was necessary to achieve the following goals: 1. Starting with an initial set of objectives for a course in human-anatomy and physiology for associate degree nursing …
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Nursing Students' Perceived Preparedness: the Impact of Apprenticeship Programs in Alabama Community Colleges
… study was to examine whether perceived nursing professional self-efficacy differed between final semester Associate Degree Nursing students who participated in a student nurse apprenticeship program and those who did not. The study was guided by Situated Learning Theory and the Cognitive …
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A Retrospective Quantitative Study Exploring the Relationship Between Academic Performance on Pre-requisite Science Courses and Associate Degree Nursing Student Outcomes
… science courses and persistence in an Associate Degree Nursing program. With a national nursing shortage, greater emphasis on the retention of students who are enrolled in nursing programs must be maintained. Emphasis at both the state and national level to respond to the Institute of …
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The effects of an eight-hour affective education program on fear of Aids and homophobia in student nurses
… in reducing homophobia and fear of AIDS in associate degree nursing students (n = 22). The Neuman Systems Model guided the study and a portion of Bandura's social learning theory provided the framework for the education intervention; A quasi-experimental time-series design (pretest/posttest …
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