Abstract

With the current nursing shortage, finding ways to increase nursing retention in graduate nurses can help ease the shortage. Self-efficacy is a factor that contributes to an individual's well-being and can affect their professional accomplishments. The purpose of this study, guided by Bandura's theory of self-efficacy, was to identify instructor characteristics that may impact student perceived self-efficacy in the clinical setting. Bandura identified self-efficacy as a factor that contributes to an individual's well-being as a whole and can affect their professional accomplishments. A sample of 19 nursing students who were enrolled in a clinical course were recruited and completed the General Self-Efficacy Scale and the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the relationships between self-efficacy and faculty characteristics and to determine if teacher effectiveness predicted student self-efficacy. Multiple regression results showed no statistically significant relationship between student self-efficacy and the students' perceptions of faculty effectiveness in teaching ability, clinical competency, evaluation, interpersonal relationships, or personality. Future studies with a larger sample size, with variations in methodology, or the type of instrument used might produce meaningful results. Nurses with high levels of self-efficacy are likely to stay in the nursing profession longer, which may decrease the nursing shortage and effect positive social change.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 31238302; ProQuest document ID: 3043633475. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Kaycee J. Jacobson, PhD

Sigma Membership

Xi Sigma

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Nursing Instructors, Self-Efficacy, Nursing Students, Social Change

Advisor

Janice Long

Second Advisor

Leslie Hussey

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Walden University

Degree Year

2024

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2024-06-04

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