Students entering nursing schools are encountering difficulties with completing the nursing program. This is a quality patient care concern, as this problem can result in a shortage of nurses to meet the demands of a constantly changing population. The competitiveness and success of nursing schools requires instructors from diverse backgrounds, instructors who possess a nuturing behavior, and instructors knowledgeable of the Evidence-Based Process and there is a slow process to gain these. The fore stated concern is the foundation for this capstone project. Experience in higher education demonstrates that some nursing students have difficulty succeeding in nursing school due to lack of continuity in the nursing curriculum. The purpose of this project is to examine factors that contribute to why nursing students are unsuccessful in an associate degree nursing curriculum.
