Correlations between Nursing Profession Aptitudes and Success Rates of Senior Nursing Students at both Professional and Midwifery Licensing Examinations
Keywords:
Success, Nursing students, Nursing Professional Aptitudes, Professional Nursing, Examination, Midwifery Licensing ExaminationAbstract
The objective of this correlational study was to identify and analyze the nursing professional aptitudes that influence the success rates of senior nursing students at both professional nursing and midwifery licensing examinations. The sample included 905 senior baccalaureate nursing students from colleges of nursing under Praboromarajchanok Institute in the academic year 2020. The G* power program was used to select this sample, using the multi-stage random sampling technique. The research instrument consisted of a test on the 7 nursing professional aptitudes: numerical, verbal, reasoning, alertness, memory, empathy, and tolerance. Content validity was examined by three experts. The Index of Item-Objective Congruence (IOC) of each item ranged from 0.67-1.00, while the Kuder-Richardson 20 reliability test yielded the 0.85 level. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis, as well as binary logistic regression.
Results showed that the logistic regression model explained 39.20% of the variance in both professional nursing and midwifery licensing examinations. The nursing professional aptitudes were the following: numerical aptitude (OR=1.20,95% CI[1.12-1.29]), reasoning attitude (OR=1.32,95% CI[1.12-1.55]), alertness aptitude (OR=1.47,95% CI[1.21-1.78]), memory aptitude (OR=1.36,95% CI[1.22-1.52]), empathy aptitude (OR=1.25,95% CI[1.13-1.39]) and tolerance aptitude (OR=1.09,95% CI[1.01-1.17]). The predicting factor of success, by aptitude, for senior nursing students in both professional nursing and midwifery licensing examinations, were as follows: numerical (1.20), reasoning (1.32), alertness (1.47), memory (1.36), empathy, (1.25), and tolerance (1.09).
Results from this study show that nursing professional aptitudes are correlated with the success of senior nursing students in professional nursing and midwifery licensing examinations.
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