Factors Influencing Self-Perceived Nursing Competence in Hospital Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 12 Sayı: 1, 186 - 195, 26.03.2025

Cahide Ayik , Serdar Sever , Merve Aliye Akyol

https://doi.org/10.34087/cbusbed.1608693

Öz

Aim; This study aimed to investigate self-assessment of nurses’ perceived nursing competence and determine how personality traits and ethical climate affect competence when demographic factors, perceived job satisfaction, job-related stress, and coping skills were controlled.
Method; A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted. The sample of the study consisted of 316 nurses working in a university hospital between March-June 2021. The Personal Characteristic Form, Holistic Nursing Competence Scale, Ten-Item Personality Traits, and the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey were used to collect data. Job satisfaction, job-related stress, and coping skills were assessed on a Visual Analog Scale (VAS) ranked from zero to ten. Pearson’s correlation and hierarchical linear regression analyses were conducted.
Results; The mean scores of nurses’ perceived competence were moderate. Ethical climate perceptions and personality traits (extraversion and openness to experience) significantly correlated with the nurse's self-perception of competence. The statistically significant factors influencing perceived nursing competence were ethical climate perceptions, openness to experience, and perceived coping skills based on the results of the hierarchical linear analysis.
Conclusion; Having better ethical climate perceptions, the personality trait of openness to experience, and increased coping skills were associated with the increased self-perception of nursing competence.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Coping skills, ethical climate, job satisfaction, job-related stress, nursing competence, personality traits.

Etik Beyan

Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Clinical Research Ethics Committee (Decision date: 17.03.2021, Protocol no: E-38824465-020-15405) and Usak University Education and Research Hospital approved this study (Decision date: 25.02.2021, Protocol no: E-45786011-602.03.99). While conducting this study, the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (2008) was complied with. After explaining the aim of the study, the informed consent form was completed by the nurses, and their anonymity was preserved. Permissions were obtained from the corresponding author regarding the use of the measurement scales.

Teşekkür

We would like to thank the Dr. Kim CURRY and Dr. Linda OLSON for reading the final version of the text and sharing valuable comments. We would also like to acknowledge all nurses who participated in the study for taking their time to answer the questionnaires.

Hastanede Çalışan Hemşirelerde Algılanan Hemşirelik Yeterliğini Etkileyen Faktörler: Kesitsel Bir Çalışma

Öz

Giriş ve Amaç: Bu çalışma, hemşirelerin algıladıkları hemşirelik yeterliklerini incelemek ve algılanan iş doyumu, iş ile ilgili stres ve baş etme becerileri kontrol edildiğinde kişilik özellikleri ile etik iklimin, hemşirelik yeterliğini nasıl etkilediğini belirlemeyi amaçlamıştır.
Gereç ve Yöntemler: Tanımlayıcı, kesitsel bir çalışma yürütülmüştür. Çalışmanın örneklemini Mart-Haziran 2021 arasında bir üniversite hastanesinde çalışan 316 hemşire oluşturmuştur. Verilerin toplanmasında Kişisel Özellikler Formu, Bütüncül Hemşirelik Yeterlik Ölçeği, On Maddeli Kişilik Ölçeği ve Hastane Etik İklim Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. İş memnuniyeti, işle ilgili stres ve başa çıkma becerileri, sıfırdan ona kadar sıralanan Görsel Analog Skala (GAS) ile değerlendirildi. Pearson korelasyon ve hiyerarşik lineer regresyon analizi yapılmıştır.
Bulgular: Hemşirelerin algıladıkları yeterlik puan ortalamaları orta düzeydeydi. Etik iklim algıları ve kişilik özellikleri (dışadönüklük ve deneyime açıklık), hemşirenin yeterlik algısı ile önemli ölçüde ilişkiliydi. Hiyerarşik lineer regresyon analiz sonuçlarına göre, algılanan hemşirelik yeterliğini etkileyen istatistiksel olarak anlamlı faktörler, etik iklim algısı, deneyime açıklık ve algılanan başa çıkma becerileriydi.
Sonuç: Artan hemşirelik yeterliği algısı; daha iyi etik iklim algısına sahip olmak, deneyime açıklık kişilik özelliği ve artan başa çıkma becerileri ile ilişkilidir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Başa çıkma becerileri; etik iklim, iş doyumu, iş ile ilgili stres, hemşirelik yeterliği, kişilik özellikleri.

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