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Exploring and improving student engagement in an accelerated undergraduate nursing program through a mentoring partnership: An action research study

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This Participatory Action Research (PAR) project aimed to engage students from an accelerated ’fast track’ nursing program in a mentoring collaboration, using an interdisciplinary partnership intervention with a group of academics. Student participants represented the disciplines of nursing and paramedicine with a high proportion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students. Nine student mentors were recruited and paired with academics for a three-month ‘mentorship partnership’ intervention. Data from two pre-intervention workshops and a post-intervention workshop were coded in NVivo11 using thematic analysis. Drawing on social inclusion theory, a qualitative analysis explored an iteration of themes across each action cycle. Emergent themes were: 1) ‘building relationships for active engagement’, 2) ‘voicing cultural and social hierarchies’, and 3) ‘enacting collegiate community’. The study offers insights into issues for contemporary accelerated course delivery with a diverse student population and highlights future strategies to foster effective student engagement.

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Publication title

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

Volume

15

Article number

20170090

Number

20170090

Pagination

1-11

ISSN

2194-5772

Department/School

School of Nursing

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Place of publication

Germany

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Copyright 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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  • Restricted

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Expanding knowledge in education

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