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Andrew, Sharon, McVicar, Andrew, Zanganeh, Mandana and Henderson, Nigel (2015) Self-efficacy and relevance of bioscience for nursing, midwifery and healthcare students. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24 (19-20). pp. 2965-2972. doi:10.1111/jocn.12933 ISSN 0962-1067.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12933
Abstract
Background:
Bioscience is a foundation subject that underpins nursing, midwifery and other allied health courses. Bioscience subjects continue to be source of anxiety for students in those courses. Raising students' self‐efficacy and perceptions of the importance and utility of bioscience to practice may be a way of ameliorating students' expectations and confidence in this subject area.
Design:
A prospective correlational survey design.
Methods:
Students were surveyed in the first semester of first year and the commencement of the second year. Students were drawn from nursing, midwifery, public health and allied health courses. The surveys contained scales for self‐efficacy for science, perceived relevance of bioscience to their course and personal expectations for success in their bioscience subject.
Results:
Ninety‐seven and 82 students completed survey 1 and 2 respectively. Twenty‐six surveys could be matched. Self‐efficacy increased from survey 1 to survey 2, but expectations for academic success and task value, a measure for relevance, were lower. This was statistically significant for the matched pair sample. Using a mean split, students with high self‐efficacy valued science more and had higher expectations for success in their bioscience courses than those with low self‐efficacy.
Conclusion
Academic success in bioscience, confidence undertaking science tasks and perceiving bioscience as relevant to their course are interwoven concepts that are important for nursing, midwifery and applied healthcare students and ultimately for their professional practice.
Relevance to clinical practice:
Literature indicates practitioners may not feel confident in their bioscience knowledge. Assisting undergraduate students to develop confidence in and perceive the relevance of bioscience to their discipline may ultimately impact on clinical practice.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Clinical Nursing | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0962-1067 | ||||||
Official Date: | 22 September 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 24 | ||||||
Number: | 19-20 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 2965-2972 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/jocn.12933 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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