Abstract

It is widely recognized that there is a nursing shortage in the U.S. due to a growing aging population, nurses retiring, and a low nursing school capacity. Nursing schools can ameliorate part of this shortage by devising ways to increase nursing student success and graduation rates. This three-manuscript paper aims to present various ideas to help nursing schools in this endeavor. A relatively unstudied population is the veteran nursing student (VNS), the focus of this paper. The first chapter, Chapter 2: A Concept Analysis of Overload: Implications for Undergraduate Nursing Students Success, discusses the concept of overload so the reader can gain an in-depth understanding of overload as a precursor for potential failure in nursing students. The second chapter, Chapter 3: Marginality and Other Barriers to Progression in Undergraduate Veteran Nursing Students: A Scoping Review, is a scoping review exploring research articles that targeted specifically VNS and gives a glimpse into the barriers that VNS experience during nursing school. The third chapter is an original research study, Chapter 4: Exploring Veteran and Non-Veteran Nursing Student Satisfaction Utilizing Marginality and Financial Stress. This study explored financial stress, marginality, and satisfaction with life in 261 veteran and non-veteran nursing students (NVNS) utilizing a Qualtrics survey with demographic questions, the Financial Stress Scale College Version, Englund Marginality Index, and Satisfaction with Life Scale. Analysis was conducted in SPSS utilizing multiple linear regression and Mann-Whitney U tests, and demographic comparisons were conducted to discover differences and similarities between VNS and NVNS.

Date of publication

7-2025

Document Type

Dissertation

Language

english

Persistent identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4869

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