Assessment of Clinical Competencies for Internship Nursing students Condensed Program

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1 Demonstrator of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt.

2 Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt

3 Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt.

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Background: Nursing internship training is a system of instruction and experience coordinated within an academic setting and leading to the acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary to practice professional nursing. Assessing and improving clinical competence is a continuous and dynamic process. Aim of the study: Assess of clinical competencies for internship nursing students condensed program. Research design: A descriptive design Setting: Assiut University Hospitals. Subjects: (88) of internship nursing students condensed program Tools: Clinical Competencies of a Nursing Internship Observational scale. Results: Internship students have a fair level of clinical competence, and their training has a high effect on all their competencies. Conclusions: In light of the current study results, it can be concluded that the studied internship nursing students have a fair level of clinical competence. And the training of students has a high effect on all their competencies. Finally, this study emphasized that there is a highly statistically significant positive correlation between the clinical competencies score and its domains. Recommendations: The faculty of nursing should integrate the concepts of clinical competencies into the main values of the curriculum and apply the evaluation of nursing students by competency scale.

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