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Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Science In The Nursing Curricula, Jill Deanne Maroo May 2013

Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Science In The Nursing Curricula, Jill Deanne Maroo

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The nursing profession combines the art of caregiving with scientific concepts. Nursing students need to learn science in order to start in a nursing program. However, previous research showed that students left the nursing program, stating it included too much science (Andrew et al., 2008). Research has shown a correlation between students’ attitudes and their performance in a subject (Osborne, Simon, & Collins, 2003). However, little research exists on the overall attitude of nursing students toward science. At the time of my study there existed no large scale quantitative study on my topic. The purpose of my study was to …