- Title
- Improving academic outcomes of enabling students in undergraduate nursing
- Creator
- Burgess, Catherine; Relf, Bronwyn
- Relation
- Journal of Institutional Research (South East Asia) Vol. 12, Issue 1, p. 98-109
- Relation
- http://www.seaairweb.info/journal/index.aspx
- Publisher
- Southeast Asian Association for Institutional Research
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Over the last five years increasing numbers of students completing Science courses in the Enabling programs offered at the University of Newcastle have enrolled in the Bachelor of Nursing. In 2012, 201 students, or 36%, of the first year intake into Nursing came through the enabling (pre-university) programs. The widening participation agenda and the increased accent on the economic outcomes of higher education have resulted in a greater number of students choosing to enroll in the enabling sciences as a direct pathway to a career in nursing. The performance of these students was monitored in undergraduate nursing. During this process it was noticed that a decline in student performance had recently began to emerge. This paper explores the shift in performance data that resulted in the development of a new course designed to ensure access and more successful participation in undergraduate nursing for enabling students. The results of this study have implications for delivering pre university nursing courses to students from non-traditional backgrounds.
- Subject
- enabling education; disadvantaged students; nursing; widening participation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1304096
- Identifier
- uon:20793
- Identifier
- ISSN:1675-6061
- Language
- eng
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