The Experience of Nursing School Failure

Barton, Lisette

Saturday, 29 October 2011

Lisette Barton, PhD
School of Nursing, University of Houston-Victoria, Sugar Land, TX
Ann T. Malecha, PhD, RN
College of Nursing, Texas Woman's University, Houston, TX
Barbara Gray, PhD, RN, CPNP
College of Nursing, Texas Woman's University, Dallas, TX
Lene Symes, PhD, RN
College of Nursing, Texas Woman's University - Houston Center, Houston, TX

Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to discuss the data surrounding academic nursing school failure.

Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to identify themes that make up the experience of failure from nursing school.

Nursing student failure is a common phenomenon in nursing education but it has not been studied from the viewpoint of those who have experienced it. This phenomenological qualitative study includes interviews with a sample of nursing students who failed out of a baccalaureate program in 2006-2007. The main research question is: What is the experience of nursing school failure? These former students create a sample of a population that researchers rarely have access to and they have shared their experiences with nursing school failure through digitally recorded telephone guided interviews. Themes were developed from the transcribed verbatim data thru the descriptive phenomenological processes of intuiting, analyzing, and describing.

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