Empowering future caregivers: the role of self-leadership in reducing stress among nursing students

Self-leadership skills help nursing students manage stress. Self-leadership development revolves around task motivation, constructive cognition, and behaviour awareness and volition. Students overcome challenges and provide exceptional treatment by being motivated to fulfil clinical and academic tasks. Clinically, constructive cognition aids critical thinking, decision-making, and adaptation. For professionalism and stress management, behaviour awareness and volition require self-regulation. This skill helps students balance personal and academic obligations, reducing stress and improving performance. Self-leadership and stress perception in nursing students across academic years were examined in this study. The study sampled 169 nursing students using basic random selection. Students had moderate task motivation and constructive cognition, but behaviour awareness and volition varied. This suggests that some nursing students are self-leaders and others are not. Self-leadership skills, stress management seminars, positive reframing tactics, and a supportive environment are needed to boost nursing students' resilience and well-being, according to the research.