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Published on: June 21, 2010
Nursing student clinical shift completion as a predictor of NCLEX failure
1Author Affiliation: Professor of Nursing, Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, New York.
Abstract:
As competition for clinical sites increases, hospitals and nursing schools report the use of nontraditional student placements such as one 12-hour clinical shift; that was an option offered by the author's school. The author discusses implementation of 12-hour shifts and compared NCLEX fail rates of students on one 12-hour shift with students who had 2 weekly 6-hour shifts.
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