title: Nursing Students' Intrinsic Motivation and Performance on the Licensure Examination.
abstract: Unsuccessful attempts at licensure adversely affect graduates, prelicensure nursing education programs, health care agencies, and ultimately, patient safety. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to investigate the relationship between nursing students' intrinsic motivation and performance on the licensure examination. Nursing students responded to 12 questions related to reasons for learning as indicators of motivation type. Results indicated no statistically significant correlations between variables.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas.
authors.forename: Michele G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Hackney
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data