Date of Conferral
5-3-2024
Date of Award
May 2024
Degree
Ph.D.
School
Nursing
Advisor
Deborah Lewis
Abstract
At-risk students face academic challenges that can affect nursing program progression. Remediation strategies can increase student success. The research problem addressed through this study is a lack of information surrounding the students' remediation experience in an at-risk, pre-licensure baccalaureate student nurse population. Individualizing remediation to the student population can increase success; however, the student perspective is needed to correctly identify and tailor the remediation activities to fit the students’ needs. The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore the experience of remediation among at-risk, pre-licensure baccalaureate student nurses. Mezirow's transformative learning theory grounded this study. The research design included semi-structured individual interviews using the Zoom platform. Twelve at-risk baccalaureate nursing students participated. The thematic analysis method was used to generate descriptive and inductive codes. Six themes emerged from the data: (a) positive remediation course experience, (b) most beneficial regarding remediation course, (c) least beneficial regarding remediation course, (d) challenges to success, (e) support for success, and (f) recommendations. A list of recommendations that summarize the benefits of remediation included providing remediation policies early within the course, course scheduling at convenient times, focused homework assignments, and offering the remediation course as a nursing elective for students who are underperforming before failing a course. Positive social change is possible by escalating the knowledge and understanding surrounding at-risk student nurses' remediation experience and initiating implementations to improve remediation strategies and boost student success rates.
Recommended Citation
Jager, Nicole, "The Experience of Remediation for At-Risk, Pre-Licensure Baccalaureate Student Nurses" (2024). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 15741.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/15741
