Relationship among Stress of Clinical Practice, Stress Coping, Ego-Resilience and Clinical Competence in Nursing Students

Min, Eun Sil

Abstract

BACKGROUND
This descriptive study was conducted to investigate the relations among stress of clinical practice, stress coping, ego-resilience and clinical competence in nursing students.
METHODS
The participants in this study were 146 who were nursing students at D university in D city. A questionnaire was conducted to investigate the relationship between stress of clinical practice, stress coping, ego-resilience and clinical competence. Collected data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation with IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0 program.
RESULTS
The Stress of Clinical Practice score of subjects was 60.8, Stress Coping score was 79.7, ego-resilience score was 38.8 and Clinical Competence score was 160.9. Students with high Satisfaction of major showed low clinical stress(F=12.410, p < .001) and showed high clinical performance(F=7.766, p < .001). There were statistically significantly correlations that ego-resilience showed a positive correlation with stress coping (r=.338, p < .001), and clinical competence was stress coping (r=.455, p < .001) and ego resilience (r=.373, p < .001).
CONCLUSION
The results of the study indicate that stress coping, resilience, and clinical competence are significantly strongly correlated. Therefore, it is suggested that to improve the clinical competence of nursing students should be improve ego-resilience and develop stress coping ability.