Critical Incident Analysis in Nursing
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING
A PROPOSAL ON THE TOPIC:
CAUSES OF HIGH FAILURE OF STUDENT NURSES AT LICENSURE EXAMINATION
A STUDY AT KORLE-BU AND NURSES MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
BY
IRENE TALATA AVOKA
INDEX NUMBER: SC/NUS/10/0088
27TH JANUARY, 2011.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW
This chapter introduces the research that is to be carried out and specifically informs readers of the document on the background of the study, problem statement, and statement of purpose, research questions, objectives, conceptual / theoretical frame work, variables and operational definitions.
Background of the study
Examination is the most reliable way of determining the level of intelligence of students in educational institutions and the level of achievement of teacher’s lesson objectives. (Duyilemi, 2003) as stated in http://allafrica.com/stories/201110061116.html.
However, when a student fails to score up to the standard pass mark in an examination, such a student is deemed to have failed such examination (Esomonu,1993) as stated in http://allafrica.com/stories/201110061116.hml. The failure of students in an examination has several factors. These factors are grouped into students based, teachers based, schools based, parents/guardians, examination agency and government’s based. This implies that almost all the stakeholders of education share in the blame of examination failure by students.
Though no research has been conducted in Ghana on the causes of high failure of student nurses at the licensure in Ghana, the Nurses and Midwifery Council of Ghana (NMC) Statistical report revealed that less than 50% of the 3,223 nursing students who sat for the 2011 licensure exams passed whilst 61.1% failed reported by ( Bonney, E. 2011, November 1 ). A study conducted in Southern Nevada University on Nevada NCLEX exam pass rate revealed that almost fifty percent (50%) of the nursing graduates who sat for the first attempt failed. (201
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING
A PROPOSAL ON THE TOPIC:
CAUSES OF HIGH FAILURE OF STUDENT NURSES AT LICENSURE EXAMINATION
A STUDY AT KORLE-BU AND NURSES MIDWIFERY TRAINING COLLEGE
BY
IRENE TALATA AVOKA
INDEX NUMBER: SC/NUS/10/0088
27TH JANUARY, 2011.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW
This chapter introduces the research that is to be carried out and specifically informs readers of the document on the background of the study, problem statement, and statement of purpose, research questions, objectives, conceptual / theoretical frame work, variables and operational definitions.
Background of the study
Examination is the most reliable way of determining the level of intelligence of students in educational institutions and the level of achievement of teacher’s lesson objectives. (Duyilemi, 2003) as stated in http://allafrica.com/stories/201110061116.html.
However, when a student fails to score up to the standard pass mark in an examination, such a student is deemed to have failed such examination (Esomonu,1993) as stated in http://allafrica.com/stories/201110061116.hml. The failure of students in an examination has several factors. These factors are grouped into students based, teachers based, schools based, parents/guardians, examination agency and government’s based. This implies that almost all the stakeholders of education share in the blame of examination failure by students.
Though no research has been conducted in Ghana on the causes of high failure of student nurses at the licensure in Ghana, the Nurses and Midwifery Council of Ghana (NMC) Statistical report revealed that less than 50% of the 3,223 nursing students who sat for the 2011 licensure exams passed whilst 61.1% failed reported by ( Bonney, E. 2011, November 1 ). A study conducted in Southern Nevada University on Nevada NCLEX exam pass rate revealed that almost fifty percent (50%) of the nursing graduates who sat for the first attempt failed. (201
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