Self-Efficacy and Readiness Towards Early Clinical Exposure Among Nursing Students
Background: Early Clinical Exposure is a learning approach that integrates classroom learning with the clinical practice at the students' academic stage. Based on an interview with 3rd-semester Nursing Students, the results showed that they had low self-efficacy and readiness towards early clin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
2021-12-01
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| Series: | IJNP (Indonesian Journal of Nursing Practices) |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/ijnp/article/view/13460 |
| Summary: | Background: Early Clinical Exposure is a learning approach that integrates classroom learning with the clinical practice at the students' academic stage. Based on an interview with 3rd-semester Nursing Students, the results showed that they had low self-efficacy and readiness towards early clinical exposure.
Objective: This study aims to evaluate self-efficacy and readiness towards early clinical exposure among nursing students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto (UMP). The study design was a cross-sectional study involving 218 undergraduate students at a private Islamic university in their third semester.
Methods: Data were collected using an online questionnaire of Google Form developed by the researcher, and the questions were valid and reliable based on a reliability test. The sampling method in this study was the total sampling technique. There were 50 questions of the item in the questionnaire and 6 items for demographic data.
Result: The majority of pupils showed strong self-efficacy (98.2%) according to the findings of this study and moderate self-efficacy (1.8%). The majority of students presented high readiness (97.7%) and moderate readiness (2.3%). According to the correlation test results, a correlation (r = 0.545, p0.05) was found between self-efficacy and readiness for early clinical exposure.
Conclusion: The higher the student's self-efficacy is, the more the readiness will be to face the practice of early clinical exposure. |
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| ISSN: | 2548-4249 2548-592X |