Date of Conferral

5-9-2024

Date of Award

May 2024

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Nursing

Advisor

Janice Long

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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