Learning clinical competencies: self confidence in nurse practitioner students

Walsh, Mike (2017) Learning clinical competencies: self confidence in nurse practitioner students. In: Royal College of Nursing (RCN) International Nursing Research Conference 2017, 5-7 April 2017, Oxford, UK. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Self confidence and the nurse practitioner:
• Nurse Practitioner students need to learn a range of new competencies as part of their education
• Self confidence is essential to promote learning, however over-confidence can be as dangerous as under-confidence
• It would be useful therefore if teaching staff had a tool that would allow them to assess student self confidence in learning competencies
• Leonard and Steele presented such a tool to NONPF in 2008; the East Carolina University Nurse Practitioner Self Efficacy Scale (NPSES).

Aims of the study:
• To assess whether the NPSES questionnaire could be understood and completed by UK students
• To investigate the possibility of reducing the size of the questionnaire (51 items) to something much shorter
• To identify those factors which students felt least confident about at the start of their clinical module(s)
• To identify those factors which students felt most confident about at the start of their clinical module(s)
• To investigate if there was any correlation between self confidence scores and OSCE performance.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Departments:	Institute of Health > Nursing
Additional Information:	Dr Mike Walsh, Reader in Nursing, University of Cumbria, UK.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2023 09:47
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2024 17:15
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7214

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