The Impact of Final year Nursing Student’s Perception of the Importance of Core Nursing Skills, Self-Efficacy, and Test Anxiety on Performance Confidence

The purpose of this study was to improve final year nursing students' confidence in performing core basic nursing skills by identifying the impact of nursing students' perception of the importance of core nursing skills, learner self-efficacy, and test anxiety on performance confidence. This is a research study. As a research method, the subjects of the study were 181 final year nursing students enrolled in nursing departments at three universities located in Provinces K, and data were collected from September 1 to September 13, 2024. Analysis of the collected data was calculated using t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS Win 29.0 progaram. As a result of the study, the subjects' confidence in performing core basic nursing skills showed a significant positive correlation with learning self-efficacy (r=.636, p<.001) and perception of importance (r=-.635, p<. 001), and learning self-efficacy showed a significant positive correlation with recognition of importance (r=.744, p<.001). Factors affecting nursing students' confidence in performing core nursing skills were self-efficacy(β=.517, p<.001) and test anxiety(β=-357, p<.001), perception of Importance(β=.002, p<.05). Based on the results of this study, in order to improve nursing students' confidence in performing core nursing skills, it is believed that it is necessary to develop an educational program to increase learning self-efficacy in core nursing skills along with finding ways to reduce test anxiety.