Investigation of a Nursing Career Counseling Program in a Community College

1 online resource (104 pages) : PDF

2015

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

ABSTRACT Balancing the demands of heavy academics with everyday adult responsibilities often proves overwhelming for nontraditional nursing students in a community college nursing program. Too often, nontraditional students elect to leave school at a critical time when the nation needs even more new nurses. The goal of this mixed method research was to investigate a program-dedicated career counselor program utilized by one community college nursing program. This study examined the types of student needs most commonly addressed by the career counselor; how nontraditional nursing students perceived the value of a program-dedicated counselor; and, the relationship between the frequency of student-counselor interactions and student progression. Nontraditional nursing students sought the career counselor's assistance with stress and anxiety and their causes. They felt overwhelmed, uncertain, and stressed; they perceived comfort from the availability of a career counselor. No statistically significant relationship was found between the frequency of student-counselor interactions and student progression.

doctoral dissertations

Education
Nursing
Health education

D.Ed.

Community College
Counseling
Nontraditional Student
Progression
Retention

Educational Leadership

D'Amico, Mark

Algozzine, Robert
Mabe, Alan
Neese, Jane

Thesis (D.Ed.)--University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2015.

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