Factors that enhance rates of completion: What makes students stay?
Nurse Education TodayPublished 26 April 2013
Alison Crombie, Jane Brindley, Deborah L. Harris, Di Marks‐Maran, Trish Thompson
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The study found a number of factors that impacted on retention which included student identify and the organisation, fostering resilience and clinical support, and practice placement mentors and clinical placements have the greatest impact on student retention.
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The study is important in that its findings contradict much of the literature on student nurse attrition and retention in that the clinical placement experiences emerges as the most important factor in whether a student chooses to stay or leave the course.
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