Factor | Characteristics |
Environmental | Financial status, family financial support, family emotional support, family responsibilities, childcare arrangements, family crisis, employment hours, employment responsibilities, encouragement by outside friends, living arrangements, and transportation. |
Institutional interaction and integration | Nursing faculty advisement and helpfulness, memberships in professional organizations, encouragement by friends in class, professional events, peer mentoring-tutoring, and enrichment programs within the institutional setting, but outside of class. |
Personal academic | Personal study skills, study hours, class attendance, credit hours enrolled, and general academic services such as computer lab hours/access, counseling, and library services. Academic factors also include course grade, semester grade point average (GPA), and overall GPA. |
College facilities | Computer lab, the library, and the nursing skills laboratory. |
Friend support | Informal study groups, informal cohorts of students who rely on each other for help with content or assignments, or other configurations of support. |