Author/Authors :
Bakr، Manal M. نويسنده Nursing Administration Department, College of Nursing, Menoufiya University - Egypt Bakr, Manal M. , Sherif، Nabila M. نويسنده Nursing Administration Department, College of Nursing, Menoufiya University - Egypt Sherif, Nabila M. , Eid، Nermine M. نويسنده Nursing Administration Department, College of Nursing, Menoufiya University - Egypt Eid, Nermine M. , ELshal، Shimaa E. نويسنده Nursing Administration Department, College of Nursing, Menoufiya University - Egypt ELshal, Shimaa E.
Abstract :
An internship year is a clinical training year for baccalaureate nursing graduates to gain practice in a real world setting under the guidance of knowledgeable, experienced, and successful supervisor. The internship year helps the graduate nurse to develop her management competencies and skills like clinical decision making , collaboration, teaching, planning, communication, critical thinking, and caring to improve their clinical practice. Purpose of the study is to study factors that influencing decision making and its effect on intern students clinical performance Setting and design descriptive co- relational design was used in two selected hospitals, Shebin El Kom University Hospital and Teaching Hospital in all units where the intern students trained .Material and method: Two different tools are, Tool I: structured questionnaire sheet to assess possible factors which influence intern students clinical decision making and determine difference degrees of influence of these factors. Tool II : Observational checklist to assesses clinical performance of internship students .A total number of intern nursing students 86 are recruited from two hospitals mentioned above. Statistical analysis: Data entry and analysis were done by using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS Version 11.0). Data was presented using mean and standard deviation, number and percentage, Chi-Squared and Pearson correlation. Findinguing: the findings of the study indicate that Intern students implied that clinical experience, competent, education, situation, relationship with instructors, values, believes, locus of control, stress, cognitive abilities, modeling and self-confident are considered factors which influencing clinical decision making. Additionally, the most factor influence intern clinical decision making was education followed by clinical experience. Furthermore, there is positive correlation between total performance and all factors influencing intern clinical decision. Conclusion: improvement in intern students education, clinical experience and other factors affect on clinical decision making will improve their clinical performance.
