Self-Efficacy Towards Ability to Perform Nursing Care
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https://doi.org/10.31674/mjn.2025.v16i04.026Abstract
Background: The ability to perform nursing care is a determining factor in the success of patient care in hospitals. Many nurses are less aware of the importance of improving their ability to provide nursing care, even lack of self-confidence has an impact on the nursing process while patients are undergoing treatment. Objectives: This study aims to determine the relationship between nurses' self-efficacy and the ability to perform nursing care. Methods: This study is a correlation study using a cross-sectional approach. This study conducted from February to May 2023.The focus of this study was on nurses who works in hospital on West Jakarta, Indonesia. The sampling technique used random sampling with a sample size of 218 nurses in hospital. Data collection in this study used a Likert scale questionnaire to measure self-efficacy and the ability to apply nursing care where the questionnaire was developed by the researcher and has been tested for validity and reliability. This study used univariate and bivariate statistical analysis. The statistical analysis used was Chi Square. Results: Nurses with high self-efficacy have the capability to provide good nursing care was 67.4% or 147 participants. The results showed a p-value of 0.001 < 0.05, It’s mean there was significant relationship between self-efficacy and the ability of nurses to provide nursing care. Conclusion: Self-efficacy plays an important role in determining the ability to provide nursing care so that each nurse needs to increase self-efficacy in the nursing process carried out on patients. Further research is needed regarding factors that are more effective in increasing a person's self-efficacy.
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Nurse, Nursing Care, Self EfficacyDownloads
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