Assessing Clinical Competency Among Nursing Students AccordingTo their Academic Level At Aligarh College Of Nursing And AlliedHealth Sciences, Lahore
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.66021/pakmcr1372Keywords:
BSN education, academic level, clinical competency, nursing students, and one-way ANOVAAbstract
Background: Clinical competency is an essential component of nursing education. Throughout academic levels,nursing students must have adequate clinical knowledge, practical skills as well as professional attitude.Clinical competency varies according to academic level.
Objective: To determine the relationship between academic level and clinical competency among nursing students.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 109 nursing students from BSN
4 year, BSN 3 year, and BSN 4 semester.A Likert-scale questionnaire consisting of four competency domains was used to collect data. SPSS version 26 was used for data analysis. Descriptive statistics,one-way ANOVA and Tukey post hoc tests were used.
Results: The findings suggest that nursing students showed moderate to high levels of clinical competency.BSN 4th year students showed the higher mean competency scores
(43.20 ± 2.39),compared to BSN 4th semester students (29.31 ± 3.91).Academic level disparities statistically significant (p<0.001) according to one-way ANOVA.Tukey
Post hoc test showed 4th year BSN nursing students (118.03) demonstrated higher clinical competency scores than BSN 4th semester nursing students (74.50).
Conclusion: Nursing students showed moderate to high levels of clinical competency, increasing according to academic level.BSN 4th year students achieved highest
competency, showing importance of academic progression in clinical competency.
