Abstract
Clinical competence is a crucial distinction for affirming professional, ethical, high quality and safe nursing care as well foster internship skills as decision making. The aim of the study was to assess correlation between clinical competence, clinical decision making, and perceived autonomy support among nursing internship students. Research design: cross sectional correlational design. Setting: 'Minia University Hospital' and 'Gynecology, Obstetric and Pediatric Minia University Hospital'. Subjects: stratified random sample from internship nursing students at general and critical units of two hospitals (size=133). Results: nursing internship student had a fair level regarding their clinical competence, clinical decision making, and perceived autonomy support. Also, the internship of critical area had level score better than the internship of general area. Conclusion: there were positive correlations between clinical competence, clinical decision making, and perceived autonomy support among nursing internship students. Recommendation: internship students need more training program to enhance their level of clinical competence, clinical decision making, and perception of autonomy.
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