Nouvarat Suknalum. Factors related to adaptation to clinical practice of nursing students at Srimahasarakham Nursing College. Master's Degree(Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing ). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2009-03-31.
Factors related to adaptation to clinical practice of nursing students at Srimahasarakham Nursing College
Abstract:
The purposes of this descriptive research were to describe the level of adaptation to clinical practice and the helping-trust relationship, to compare the difference in adaptation to clinical practice among nursing students by educational level group and to predict adaptation to clinical practice of nursing students at Srimahasarakham Nursing College by helping-trust relationship and nursing students income.The samples of 174 baccalaureate nursing students at Srimahasarakham Nursing College
were selected by purposive sampling method, composed of sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the academic year 2003.Data were collected by the researcher using two questionnaires during May, 2004.The questionnaires were the helping-trust relationship and the adaptation to clinical practice questionnaire. The reliability of both questionnaires, using Cronbachs alpha coefficients, was 0.94 and 0.84.
respectively The results :1. The level of adaptation to clinical practice of nursing students was found at the low level. However, for each mode of adaptation, physiologic and selfconcept mode was found at moderate level and the role function and interdependence mode was found at the low level. 2. The level of helping-trust relationship was found at the rather poor level for total and three sub-scales score.
3. The nursing students at different educational levels (sophomore, junior, and senior groups) showed no significant difference in adaptation to clinical practice in mode and total. 4. The result of the stepwise multiple regressions analysis showed that only the helping-trust relationship can predict adaptation to clinical practice of nursing
students and can explain 6.7 % of the variance of the adaptation to clinical practice of nursing students. Nursing students income did not emerge as a significant predictor of adaptation to clinical practice of nursing students. Its relation was expressed by the following equation;
Adaptation to clinical practice = 76.299 + .511 (Helping-trust relationship)