The Psychometric Evaluation of the Revised Clinical Skills Self-Efficacy Scale.
OBJECTIVE
This study's purpose was to psychometrically evaluate the revised Clinical Skills Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES). Self-efficacy is a predictor of an individual's behavior in situations such as learning to implement a new clinical nursing skill.


METHODS
Subjects were nursing students (N = 214). The CSES, an investigator-developed instrument designed to measure nursing students' perceptions of their self-efficacy as it relates to selected clinical skills, was used to measure clinical skills self-efficacy. The instrument consisted of 9 clinical skills.


RESULTS
There was evidence from 2 prior pilot studies both supporting the CSES's reliability and validity.


CONCLUSIONS
Self-efficacy may be one way to explain the relationship between clinical skills instruction and the successful enactment of these clinical skills.
Walsh University, Ohio, USA.
Sharon L
SL
Oetker-Black
Judy
J
Kreye
Tammie
T
Davis
Sherrie
S
Underwood
Samantha
S
Naug
D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009820:Ohio; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult