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P B Beeman

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PubMed1991

Nursing education, practice, and professional identity: a transcultural course in England.

Students from a baccalaureate program at the University of Delaware participated in a 4-week course in England, exploring nursing's role in the health care system of that country. Students observed and interacted with a variety of clients and nurses in diverse settings; they observed similarities and differences in nursing education, practice, and professional identity between nurses in England and in the United States. The course was timely and valuable--it provided students with the opportunity to enhance their awareness of another culture and it allowed them to recognize nursing's importance in global health concerns.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
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National Council Licensure Examination success: accurate prediction of student performance on the post-1988 examination.

This study was designed to identify variables that might be used as predictors for success on the post-1988 National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) and to identify those students at risk of failing the examination. The convenience sample consisted of 257 graduates of a baccalaureate nursing program from 1988 to 1990. The investigators examined 15 variables to determine their predictive value for NCLEX success. Grades in the first senior level nursing course and graduation grade point index were the two best predictors. Results of the discriminant analyses identified seven significant predictor variables leading to successful classification of 86 per cent of students at the end of the junior year, 88 per cent during the senior year, and 91 per cent by the time of graduation. Findings from this study indicate that reasonably accurate predictive data on individual student performance is available by the end of the junior year, allowing faculty to begin interventions for at-risk students. The greater precision of prediction during the senior year and at graduation provides direction for later remediation to increase the probability of passing the NCLEX.

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Predicting NCLEX-RN performance: cross-validating an identified classification procedure.

This study was an attempt to cross-validate a procedure from an earlier study for predicting NCLEX-RN performance. In the original study, a discriminant function was developed on 313 baccalaureate nursing graduates (1988 through 1990), which used 15 variables to correctly categorize more than 91 per cent of them on NCLEX-RN performance. This study used 142 subjects who graduated in 1991 and 1992 to evaluate the adequacy of the classification procedure. Subjects in this more recent sample differed significantly from those in the first on several variables, including SAT scores, physiology grades, and nursing grades. Eight-four per cent of the subjects in the cross-validation sample were correctly classified using the original discriminant function. More than 62 per cent of failures and 87 per cent of passes were correctly categorized. These results suggest that it is statistically and ethically sound to use this discriminant function to identify future students in danger of NCLEX-RN failure.

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Peers, parents, and partners. Determining the needs of the support person in an abortion clinic.

To ascertain how clinics might better meet the needs of support persons accompanying clients for an abortion, data were gathered through a questionnaire that related 25 statements to Maslow's five categories of need. The expressed needs of each support person were assessed and then compared by three groups designated by their relationship to the abortion client as either female peer, parent, or male partner. Significant differences (P less than 0.05) among categories of support persons were demonstrated on six of the 25 statements, a finding that suggests that abortion clinics should develop and implement counseling programs specific to the needs of each of the different groups.

Abortion, Induced↗