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Model and related information are available in the book (2nd Edition) and toolkit, as well as journal articles and podcast.
Jeffreys's NURS Model Nursing Universal Retention and Success (NURS)
The NURS model provides a framework for examining factors influencing nursing student retention and success in order to:
- identify at-risk students
- develop diagnostic-prescriptive strategies to facilitate success
- guide innovations in teaching and educational research
- evaluate strategy effectiveness
The NURS model has been applied in a variety of undergraduate and graduate settings worldwide, workforce diversity grants, other grant-funded projects, and professional development programs with nursing and college-wide faculty, staff, and administrators.
Focused on “what helps students achieve their potential and optimal outcomes despite obstacles and hardships?” the model advocates a proactive, culturally congruent, holistic approach.
“Culturally congruent faculty actions involve the use of culturally based knowledge in sensitive, responsive, and responsible ways to promote inclusiveness, visibility, and cultural safety for diverse students while providing human connectedness and immediate relevance to best practice standards of the nursing profession.” (Jeffreys, 2020, p. 12). https://doi.org/10.1177/1521025120939254
Results from factor analysis, correlational, cross-sectional, longitudinal, descriptive, quasi-experimental pre and post-intervention, and qualitative designs continue to support model components and its underlying assumptions.
