| Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 2:30 PM-3:45 PM | |||
| Targeting Success: Creative Strategies for Retaining Nursing Students | |||
| Learning Objective #1: discuss challenges involved in recruiting and retaining quality nursing students. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: identify three strategies for improving retention of all students admitted to a nursing program. | |||
| In this era of acute nursing shortage, schools of nursing are being challenged to produce more graduates. The most obvious solution has been to increase enrollments, and this has happened across the country. Perhaps less obvious, but equally important, is the retention of those students who are admitted. The University of North Florida has answered the challenge by not only increasing enrollments, but by creating and implementing a cadre of strategies designed to admit and retain high quality nursing students without decreasing the rigor of the nursing program. This symposium will describe strategies aimed at: identifying and admitting students fully capable of succeeding in a rigorous program of study; formal orientation of those admitted to all aspects of the curriculum; and a formal program designed to improve study skills and critical thinking. | |||
| Symposium Organizer: | Kathaleen C. Bloom, PhD, CNM | ||
| Symposium Presenters: | Lillia Loriz, PhD, GNP-C Lucy B. Trice, PhD, ARNP, BC Kathaleen C. Bloom, PhD, CNM | ||
| 709 | Access and Entry: Making Admission Decisions Lucy B. Trice, PhD, ARNP, BC | ||
| 710 | Adaptathon: Getting Them Off to a Good Start Kathaleen C. Bloom, PhD, CNM | ||
| 711 | SUCCEED: Helping Those Who Struggle Lillia Loriz, PhD, GNP-C | ||