Improving retention and graduation rates for black students in nursing education: a developmental model

Nurs Outlook. 1992 Mar-Apr;40(2):78-85.

Abstract

High attrition rates among black students are a significant factor in the decline in graduation rates from nursing programs. Nursing education needs a program to address problems of anger, frustration, and loneliness and to develop the black student as a whole person.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Black or African American* / psychology
  • Education, Nursing* / economics
  • Education, Nursing* / organization & administration
  • Family
  • Human Development
  • Humans
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Models, Psychological*
  • Self Concept
  • Student Dropouts* / psychology
  • Students, Nursing* / psychology
  • United States