Current Situation and Influencing Factors of Post Competency of Undergraduate Nursing Students

Abstract

<i>Objective:</i> To understand the status quo and influencing factors of undergraduate nursing interns' competency in clinical practice, and to provide scientific basis for the development of undergraduate nursing interns' training plan in clinical practice base. Methods a cross-sectional survey of 231 undergraduate nursing interns enrolled in the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University from 2021 to 2022 was conducted using a self-designed general data questionnaire, a full-time undergraduate nursing internship job competency evaluation scale and a general self-efficacy scale. <i>Results:</i> The highest score of clinical nursing competence of undergraduate nursing interns was 76.99±10.95. The results of multi-factor analysis showed that age, class committee member at school, age, only child, education background, household registration, education background, voluntary choice of nursing major, gender, class committee member at school, voluntary choice of nursing major were all factors affecting the post competency of nursing students (P < 0.05). <i>Conclusion(s):</i> Undergraduate clinical nursing students have certain cognition of post competency, but there is a great difference in the post competency of nursing students, which is still a difficulty in the implementation of post competence-oriented teaching mode for undergraduate clinical nursing students.