title: Education's 'leap into the dark' an unknown in effort to cut attrition.
abstract: Drop-out rates among nursing students have been a concern for years. Nursing Standard was first to reveal the scale of the problem a decade ago, when a quarter of those who started their courses were not making it to the end. The situation has barely improved since.
authors.forename: Graham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013332:Student Dropouts / Q000523:psychology*; D013338:Students, Nursing; D014146:Training Support; D006113:United Kingdom