Views of Nursing Students about Clinical Instructor behaviours That Affect the Development of Self-Confidence, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan

Self-confidence is not a skill, but helpful in practice. It is an attribute that cannot be transferred from one to another, but it must be acquired by being fostered and modeled. Students build confidence in their ability to function as nurses by experiencing successes in the clinical area (Flagler et al., 1988).

The purpose of this study was to identify the views of the nursing students about clinical instructor behaviours that affect the development of self-confidence, by using self administrated closed ended questionnaire.

It was consisting of 73 questions in four categories (communication behaviours, interpersonal relations, nursing competence, and teaching abilities).Two-stage proportions systematic sampling technique was used to collected data from 200 diploma nursing students.   This Descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in tertiary care hospitals Peshawar Pakistan. The result indicated that Most Important Behaviours of Clinical Instructor as Perceived by Students were 22 (rated by more than 80% of participants), 41were Important Behaviours (rated by 70 to 79 % of Students) and 10 were least Important (rated by less than 70 % of Students) Behaviours of Clinical Instructor as Perceived by Students.