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The Relationship Of General Science Grades To Program Completion In An Associate Degree Nursing Program, Catherine Edlebeck
The Relationship Of General Science Grades To Program Completion In An Associate Degree Nursing Program, Catherine Edlebeck
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High attrition of nursing students in the United States may contribute to a shortage of registered nurses and inefficient use of scarce resources. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between nursing student grades in 3 science prerequisites and length of time to program completion on each of the study college's 4 campuses. Ausubel's theory of subsumption, wherein a learner's ability to meaningfully learn new data depends on the existing cognitive structure within which the new material is assimilated, was used as a theoretical framework. Prerequisite science course grades for 575 nursing students attending a Midwestern technical …