title: Promoting self-confidence in clinical nursing students.
abstract: Clinical nursing instructors are continually telling their students that they just need more confidence. But how do students find this needed confidence and how can nursing instructors help them? The author discusses sources and principles of confidence in relationship to teaching behaviors and strategies for increasing self-confidence, such as simulations, peer modeling, story telling, skill review sessions, and journaling.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA. Karen-Lundberg@byu.edu
authors.forename: Karen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Lundberg
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009042:Motivation; D033262:Narration; D016544:Patient Simulation; D010379:Peer Group; D011588:Psychology, Educational; D012381:Role Playing; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012944:Social Support; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014956:Writing