Wendy906

Wendy906 has 17 years experience and specializes in Medical Surgical, Nursing Education.

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1. Nursing Student Attrition and Retention Strategies: Please share your experiences!

   Wendy906 replied to Wendy906's topic in Educators

   [TABLE=align: center] [TR] [TD=align: left]Hello Whispera, CNS!!! Yes many of our nursing students attend the APA workshop (specially our first semester students). We usually scheduled intimately following lecture to improve attendance. We put it ...

2. Nursing Student Attrition and Retention Strategies: Please share your experiences!

   Wendy906 replied to Wendy906's topic in Educators

   Hello SHGR, MSN, RN! Thank you for sharing your experiences at your institution. My institution is an open-access institution and so many of our students require many remedial/developmental courses. Even though our the admission to the nursing pro...

3. Nursing Student Attrition and Retention Strategies: Please share your experiences!

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   Hello again! Thank you for the additional information. The full-time faculty members where I work attend a monthly meeting with the dean and other support staff. There we usually discuss retention and attrition issues as well as NCLEX scores of our s...

4. Nursing Student Attrition and Retention Strategies: Please share your experiences!

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   [TABLE=align: center] [TR] [TD=align: left]Hello Whispera, I hope you are well! It is interesting that many of the factors you perceive to be associate with student attrition are the same for the faculty at my institution. However, our students are...

5. Nursing Student Attrition and Retention Strategies: Please share your experiences!

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   [TABLE=align: center] [TR] [TD=align: left]As a fulltime nursing faculty for the past several years, I have noticed low success rates at my institution first hand. Usually, in the first nursing course (Fundamentals of Nursing), the program admits a ...

6. ADN Vs BSN as Entry Level

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   Hello AJJKRN! Thanks for your reply. I agree with your statements on the issue. I think that the BSN-in-10 proposition that was made years ago is fair and feasible. Even obtaining a BSN in 5 years after graduation from an ADN program is realistic....

7. ADN Vs BSN as Entry Level

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   Thanks for your reply Keylimesqueez! That is interesting. In my area, many of my ADN graduates are having a difficult time finding employment in the acute care setting. Most hospitals in this area have shifted their preferences towards BSN graduate...

8. ADN Vs BSN as Entry Level

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   My apologies

9. ADN Vs BSN as Entry Level

   Wendy906 posted a topic in Educators

   I would love to hear your perspective on this debate! I teach in an associate degree (AD) nursing program and I agree that these programs serve a very specific segment of the population that might not otherwise have access the adult educational syste...