Understanding and Preventing Student Attrition in Pre-registration Nursing Education
- 1st Edition - May 5, 2026
- Latest edition
- Author: Amanda Costello
- Language: English
Boost student success and increase completion rates in your nursing programmeMore than twenty per cent of today’s nursing students will leave their training before qualifyin… Read more
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Boost student success and increase completion rates in your nursing programme
More than twenty per cent of today’s nursing students will leave their training before qualifying. Understanding and Preventing Student Attrition in Pre-registration Nursing Education explores this challenging issue in nursing education, helping faculty, mentors and healthcare organisations recognise the causes of nursing student dropout, develop effective strategies for prevention, and provide better support to student nurses. With its emphasis on prevention and support, this practical text not only addresses the problem of attrition but provides solutions to help strengthen the future nursing workforce.
More than twenty per cent of today’s nursing students will leave their training before qualifying. Understanding and Preventing Student Attrition in Pre-registration Nursing Education explores this challenging issue in nursing education, helping faculty, mentors and healthcare organisations recognise the causes of nursing student dropout, develop effective strategies for prevention, and provide better support to student nurses. With its emphasis on prevention and support, this practical text not only addresses the problem of attrition but provides solutions to help strengthen the future nursing workforce.
Key features
Key features
Key Features
• Brings together research, evidence and strategies to help educators, institutions and policymakers better support student nurses, providing targeted guidance that can improve student retention and ultimately support safer, more sustainable healthcare systems.
• Explores the reasons behind attrition—the often-complex academic, emotional, financial and clinical pressures that lead students to leave before qualification.
• Emphasises prevention and support throughout, in areas such as mentorship and supervision, student wellbeing, improved teaching strategies and early identification of struggling students.
• Brings together research, evidence and strategies to help educators, institutions and policymakers better support student nurses, providing targeted guidance that can improve student retention and ultimately support safer, more sustainable healthcare systems.
• Explores the reasons behind attrition—the often-complex academic, emotional, financial and clinical pressures that lead students to leave before qualification.
• Emphasises prevention and support throughout, in areas such as mentorship and supervision, student wellbeing, improved teaching strategies and early identification of struggling students.
Readership
Readership
Nursing educators, pre-registration nursing students, and academic institutions seeking strategies to reduce student attrition
Table of contents
Table of contents
1 Historical Context of Nurse Attrition
2 What Is Attrition in Higher Education?
3 Key Findings of the Attrition Research Project
4 Factors Contributing to Attrition
5 Personal Idiosyncratic Reasons for Leaving an Undergraduate Nursing Course
6 The Consequences of Attrition on Undergraduate Nurses: A Critical Analysis
7 Practical Strategies
8 Possible Resources
9 Links to Relevant Governmental and International Bodies
2 What Is Attrition in Higher Education?
3 Key Findings of the Attrition Research Project
4 Factors Contributing to Attrition
5 Personal Idiosyncratic Reasons for Leaving an Undergraduate Nursing Course
6 The Consequences of Attrition on Undergraduate Nurses: A Critical Analysis
7 Practical Strategies
8 Possible Resources
9 Links to Relevant Governmental and International Bodies
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 5, 2026
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
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Amanda Costello
Affiliations and expertise
EdD, MSc, BSc Sociology, PGCE History, NPQH, NPQEL, RNLD