The wicked problem of healthcare student attrition.
midwifery
nurse education
retention
undergraduates
wicked problems
withdrawal
Journal
Nursing inquiry
ISSN: 1440-1800
Titre abrégé: Nurs Inq
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 9505881
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 2019
07 2019
Historique:
received:
16
08
2018
revised:
01
03
2019
accepted:
03
03
2019
pubmed:
6
5
2019
medline:
29
7
2020
entrez:
7
5
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The early withdrawal of students from healthcare education programmes, particularly nursing, is an international concern and, despite considerable investment, retention rates have remained stagnant. Here, a regional study of healthcare student retention is used as an example to frame the challenge of student attrition using a concept from policy development, wicked problem theory. This approach allows the consideration of student attrition as a complex problem derived from the interactions of many interrelated factors, avoiding the pitfalls of small-scale interventions and over-simplistic assumptions of cause and effect. A conceptual framework is proposed to provide an approach to developing actions to reduce recurrent investment in interventions that have previously proved ineffective at large scale. We discuss how improvements could be achieved through integrated stakeholder involvement and acceptance of the wicked nature of attrition as a complex and ongoing problem.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31056831
doi: 10.1111/nin.12294
pmc: PMC9286456
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Pagination
e12294Informations de copyright
© 2019 The Authors. Nursing Inquiry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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