title: Strategies for success: crisis management model for remediation of at-risk students.
abstract: Student success is a concern for all nursing schools. Accountability for NCLEX(®) pass rates, along with accountability for student attrition and progression, compel nursing schools to carefully select applicants and then actively manage their progress. One of the strategies of managing student progression is to use standardized, nationally normalized exit examinations to identify students at risk for NCLEX-RN failure. This article describes the response of one baccalaureate nursing program to an unacceptable number of exit examination failures among senior students preparing to graduate. As a unique approach to this matter, a crisis management process was used to assess the problem, to develop and implement an intervention for at-risk students, and to revise program policies to better support ongoing student success.
authors.affiliation: New Mexico State University, School of Nursing, Las Cruces, NM, USA. acrein@nmsu.edu
authors.forename: Anita C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Reinhardt
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ochart Summers
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schultz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016730:Program Development; D012073:Remedial Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D012944:Social Support; D015206:Southwestern United States