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Bridget Maley1, William Jacobowitz1
1Adelphi University, College of Nursing and Public Health, United States of America.
Background:
The current nursing shortage and faculty shortage makes it important for accepted nursing students to complete the program and be successful on the NCLEX. The Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) examination is one entrance exam that is used to determine if a student is eligible for acceptance into a nursing program. Reading and reading comprehension is one of the areas addressed on this examination. The importance of reading skills and comprehension is important to be successful in higher education and specifically nursing programs.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to determine which if any score on the TEAS examination (current entrance exam used in many schools of nursing education) correlates to success in the fundamentals course in a nursing program.
Method:
This study is a retrospective review of eight semesters of bachelor's degree nursing cohorts (n = 303) in a private university in the northeast. The students in this study where all transfer students as the TEAS examination is necessary for acceptance of transfer students. Transfer students at this university are defined as students who transfer from another college or are changing their major to nursing at this university. This study looks at the individual TEAS scores as well as comprehensive scores to determine which of these scores may correlate to success in a Fundamentals in Nursing (first semester nursing course).
Results:
This research study showed that the TEAS score and reading and the comprehensive score were statistically significant to a student's fundamentals grade.
Conclusion:
The TEAS Reading and Comprehensive scores were found to be statistically significant in relationship to success in Fundamentals in Nursing course.
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