Risk assessment profile and strategies for success instrument: determining prelicensure nursing students' risk for academic success.
The ultimate outcomes for succeeding in a collegiate prelicensure nursing program are earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and passing the NCLEX-RN®. The Risk Assessment Profile, Strategies for Success (RAPSS) is a criterion-based instrument that incorporates demographic and academic risk indicators. A convenience sample (N = 255) obtained retrospectively from student files was used to determine whether the RAPSS could be used to predict whether completers of a baccalaureate, prelicensure program will pass or fail the NCLEX-RN. Results indicate that the scale does discriminate between candidates who fail and pass, even with as few as three of the 13 items.
School of Nursing and Health Sciences, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA. breckenridge@lasalle.edu
Diane M
DM
Breckenridge
Zane Robinson
ZR
Wolf
Michael J
MJ
Roszkowski
D000124:Achievement; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D016015:Logistic Models; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States