The effect of a preceptorship programme on newly hired experienced professional nurses’ self-efficacy in nursing clinical competency in Saudi Arabia

Autor: Elizabeth Chipwanya, Charlene Downing, Elizabeth Nkosi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, Vol 20, Iss , Pp 100682- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2214-1391
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijans.2024.100682
Popis: Aim: This study aimed to determine if participation in a preceptorship programme affected newly hired experienced professional nurses’ self-efficacy in clinical practice and whether their perceived competence was related to respondents’ demographic profiles at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia. Background: Formal preceptorship programmes are initiated with the aim of improving the characteristics related to new workplace adaptations, such as reducing stress and anxiety, improving effective communication, enhancing clinical performance and competencies, and learning new clinical skills. These programmes’ effectiveness in improving nurses’ self-efficacy in clinical practice is seldom measured, especially among newly hired experienced professional nurses. Methods: A quasi-experimental, quantitative pre- and post-test one-group study design with convenient sampling was used. Results: Self-efficacy post-test scores were significantly higher than pre-test scores (p
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