The relationship between practical skills confidence and readiness for transition to practice among nursing internship students: Exploring the mediating role of preceptorship
Sally Mohammed Farghaly Abdelaliem , Dalia Khalid Alsleem , Sara Khaled Aladdad , Aldanah Saif Alqahtani , Rahha Khalef Alenazi , Maha Ghazi Alotaibi , Hadeel Khalid Oqailan , Lujain Bandar Almarshad
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Abstract
Background
The transition from nursing student to practitioner can be a difficult and stressful period marked by a lack of confidence and practical skills. To bridge this theory-practice gap and ensure successful integration into the workforce, preceptorship programs are essential. By providing experienced mentors and role models, preceptors can equip new nurses with the necessary skills, boost their confidence, and ultimately contribute to a smoother transition and a more prepared nursing workforce.
Aim
Examine the relationship between practical skills confidence and readiness for transition to practice among nursing internship students through exploring the mediating role of preceptorship.
Design
This was a descriptive correlational study.
Participants
A convenience sample of 100 internship nursing students from College of Nursing at a selected governmental University in Riyadh were included in the study.
Methods
The study participants responded to an electronic Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey validated survey. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to explore results and examine the relationships between study variables.
Results
About half of the study sample (53 %) had low level of perception regarding the role transition experience with a mean score of 3.01 ± 0.39. As well as more than two thirds of the participated internship nursing students (62 %) had a moderate level of perception regarding the preceptorship role with a mean score of 3.13 ± 0.57. Furthermore, more than half of the study participants (57 %) had high confidence in their practical skills with a mean score of 2.12 ± 0.48. In addition, the study results verified that there was a highly significant correlation between the internship nursing students' practical skills confidence, their readiness for transition to practice and role of preceptorship (P < 0.001). According to the SEM, internship nursing students' perception regarding preceptorship role accounted for 98 % of the variance in internship nursing students transition to practice and 88 % of the variance in their confidence level of their practical skills.
Conclusion
Internship nursing students' perception regarding the role of preceptorship regarding is an important predictor of the success of their transition to practice and it affect on improving their confidence level of their practical skills.
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Nurse Education Today is the leading international journal providing a forum for the publication of high quality original research, review and debate in the discussion of nursing, midwifery and interprofessional health care education, publishing papers which contribute to the advancement of educational theory and pedagogy that support the evidence-based practice for educationalists worldwide. The journal stimulates and values critical scholarly debate on issues that have strategic relevance for leaders of health care education.
The journal publishes the highest quality scholarly contributions reflecting the diversity of people, health and education systems worldwide, by publishing research that employs rigorous methodology as well as by publishing papers that highlight the theoretical underpinnings of education and systems globally. The journal will publish papers that show depth, rigour, originality and high standards of presentation, in particular, work that is original, analytical and constructively critical of both previous work and current initiatives.
Authors are invited to submit original research, systematic and scholarly reviews, and critical papers which will stimulate debate on research, policy, theory or philosophy of nursing and related health care education, and which will meet and develop the journal''s high academic and ethical standards.
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