title: Jeffreys's Nursing Universal Retention and Success model: overview and action ideas for optimizing outcomes A-Z.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nursing student persistence, retention, and success are universally desired outcomes yet remain elusive and challenging worldwide.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study is to provide nurse educators with an organizing framework and action ideas for optimizing student outcomes.
  Jeffreys's Nursing Universal Retention and Success (NURS) model presents a globally-applicable framework for examining the multidimensional factors that affect undergraduate and graduate nursing student retention and success in order to make a positive difference.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article presents a brief overview of the empirically-based NURS model and indicates that retention decisions, persistence, and optimal outcomes will be based on the interaction of student profile characteristics, student affective factors, academic factors, environmental factors, academic outcomes, psychological outcomes, outside surrounding factors, and professional integration factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An A-Z list of action ideas provides nurse educators with a springboard for further developing ideas tailored to individual program and student needs. Recommendations for global collaborative partnerships and networks are presented.
authors.affiliation: The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate College, CUNY College of Staten Island, USA. Electronic address: marianne.jeffreys@csi.cuny.edu.
authors.forename: Marianne R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Jeffreys
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004522:Educational Status; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D016294:Models, Nursing; D012944:Social Support; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Academic achievement; Attrition; Retention