Exploring the Relationship Between Perceived Professional Benefits and Self-Efficacy Among Nursing Students: A Correlational Study
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Background: As global healthcare demand rises, the nursing profession faces critical challenges like staff shortages and high turnover, threatening service quality and team stability. Recent focus on positive psychology has highlighted Perceived Professional Benefits (PPB) - nurses' positive gains and personal growth through work, enhancing professional identity and self-worth.
Simultaneously, self-efficacy - one's belief in successfully performing tasks - significantly influences nursing interns' performance and career decisions. Those with higher self-efficacy manage workplace stress better, leading to greater job satisfaction and retention.
Objective :Through the investigation of the current situation of the sense of occupational benefit and self-efficacy of nursing interns, the data were analyzed to explore the relationship, to provide reference for self-efficacy of nursing interns.
Methods :175 intern nursing students were selected as the research subjects through convenience sampling method, and relevant scales were used for investigation.
Results :The results of the study show that the intern nursing students scored (114.21±13.18) points in the sense of professional gain and (27.48±4.85) points in the sense of self-efficacy. There was a statistical significance in the scores of their academic qualifications, reasons for choosing nursing, degree of liking nursing, thought of engaging in nursing industry after graduation, and the sense of professional gain of interns who were satisfied with their teachers (P<0.05). The results showed that there was a positive correlation between the sense of occupational benefit and self-efficacy of nursing interns (P<0.05).
Conclusions :The study found that the sense of occupational benefit and self-efficacy of nursing interns are at a medium level and in direct proportion. Therefore, colleges and hospitals can take targeted measures to improve the sense of professional benefit of nursing interns, so as to enhance the level of self-efficacy and stabilize the nursing team.
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