Abstract: Background: Students nurses face many challenges especially in their 1st year journey in Higher Education (HE). The challenges include academic, personal, socio-economic, language barriers, academic and clinical challenges. These challenges cause much duress unto a student nurse who eventually fail in their course and/or dropout out completely of the High Education Institution (HEI). It is the imperative of the Nursing Higher Education Institution (NHEI) to identify the challenges of first year student nurses so that adequate support can be provided by the HEI, if possible, to prevent student nurse failure and dropout.
Materials and Methods: An ethnographic design and Strauss and Corbin's Grounded theory data-analysis approach were used in this.....
Key Words: Access, challenges, support, financial, socio-economic, pregnant, English Second Language
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