Evaluating the Relationship between Clinical Competence and Clinical Self-efficacy of Nursing Students in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences

The aim of study was determining the rate of relationship between clinical competence and clinical self-efficacy of nursing students in Kermanshah University of medical sciences in 2016. The study has done with descriptive-analytical method of correlation. 80 people have selected by the simple random sampling. The data collection tool was standard questionnaire of clinical competence evaluation and Sherer self-efficacy. The data have analyzed by the Pearson (r) correlation coefficient test. The results have showed that there was a positive and significant relation between the patients assisting competency (p=0.03, r=0.15), the care selfefficacy (p=0.04, r=0.13), the legal and moral performance self-efficacy (p=0.003, r=0.21) and the students competence. In addition, there was a positive and significant relation between the professional development self-efficacy (p=0.004, r=0.19), the patients safety, security and comfort (p=0.00, r=0.22) and the leadership and managing self-efficacy (p=0.00, r=0.26), the cooperation with the treatment teams members competence (p=0.02, r=0.12) and the students efficiency. According to the relation between evaluated variables the selfefficacy have suggested for improving the clinical competence and as a results improvement of the students clinical performance.