Bullying Behaviors and Self Efficacy among Nursing Students at Clinical Settings: Comparative Study

Abstract

Background:. Nursing students who experienced bullying behaviors feel anger and missing their concentration, their capability to achieve a desired outcome. Also  self-efficacy, often referred to as self-confidence, is essential to  nursing  students’ ability and performance in the clinical setting Aim: Study aimed to examine relation between bullying behaviors and self  efficacy among nursing  students. Methods: Descriptive comparative correlation  design .Sample included all students nurses in final  year  at faculty of nursing   and Technical  Health Institute .Total number of nursing students at faculty of nursing  were(n=206) and Technical  Health Institute were (n=132).There are two tools of data collection used  Bullying in nursing education questionnaire and General self efficacy scale. Results: More than one third of faculty nursing students were exposed to moderate degree of bullying (38.8%) while  technical health institute nursing students(23.1%). More than above half of total nursing students had mild self efficacy (58.9%).Conclusion: There was a significance relationship between bullying behavior and general self-efficacy among the studied nursing students. Recommendation: Students must be conscious of procedures for reporting experiences of bullying and be able to do so in a nonthreatening and threatening environment. Also make students aware about the goals that need to be attained in their clinical setting and provide them with feedback  through  effective communication on goal progress.

Keywords: Bullying Behaviors, Self efficacy, Nursing Students , Clinical setting