Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: January-March | Volume: 5 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 182-185
Nursing Competency Self-efficacy among Final Year Students: Feedback to Course Outcome in a Selected College, Kolkata, West Bengal
Madhusri Manna1, Kasturi Mandal2, Kathika Pattanayak3
1,2,3Professor, College of Nursing, Asia Heart Foundation, Kolkata.
Corresponding Author: Madhusri Manna
ABSTRACT
Student nurses must possess certain abilities to progress in their career and professional areas. Bandura s social cognitive theory identifies self efficacy as key psychological construct with regard to how people adopt to environment where new skills are developed. Self efficacy is a multifaceted concept that is foundational to nursing education.
A descriptive study was conducted to assess the nursing competency self -efficacy among the final year B.Sc Nursing students in a selected college in Kolkata 94 samples were selected by convenient sampling technique. Data were collected by questionnaire on demographic profile & standardized Nursing self-efficacy scale. The study findings revealed that maximum students i.e. 75.5% in the age group of 22-23yrs and the maximum students i.e. 64.89% were highly competent. It also showed that according to domain wise ranking, they were maximum competent in the areas of advocacy & ethical issues(mean score 41.6) and minimum competent in the area of leadership in nursing (mean score-12.25).So more emphasis should be given on the less competent domain of nursing self- efficacy in the curriculum.
Keywords: Self-efficacy, competency, domain, proficiency, self-assertiveness.