Graduation Semester and Year
2015
Language
English
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
Department
Nursing
First Advisor
Patricia Thomas
Abstract
Persistence is an important measure of success for individual students and institutions of higher learning. The purpose of this study was to explore personal and academic factors that influence persistence in online graduate nursing students. A predictive correlational study design was used. Data were extracted from existing student records in two online graduate programs within a large, urban college of nursing. A sample size of 197 graduate nursing students was selected, 94 who persisted to graduation from their program within 36 months and 103 who did not. Age, gender, race/ethnicity, undergraduate GPA, undergraduate education (BSN or RN-BSN level) were examined as predictors of persistence in the two online graduate nursing programs. In this study, undergraduate GPA emerged as a predictor of persistence to graduation. It is evident that there are other significant factors that affect persistence that have yet to be determined. By identifying students’ characteristics of persistence, strategies can be developed to enhance success in online graduate nursing programs.
Keywords
Persistence, Nursing graduate students, Distance education
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Nursing
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Cauble, Denise, "PREDICTORS OF PERSISTENCE IN ONLINE GRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS" (2015). Nursing Dissertations. 82.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/nursing_dissertations/82
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington