Investigation of The Relationship Between Emotional Self Efficacy and Critical Thinking Disposition in Surgical Nurses

İşeri Ö., Atasayar B. Ş., Ursavas F. E.

Sağlık ve Hemşirelik Yönetimi Dergisi, cilt.10, sa.1, ss.29-37, 2023 (TRDizin)

Özet

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between emotional self-efficacy and critical thinking in surgical nurses working in surgical departments. Method: A cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational study was conducted to examine the relationship between the emotional self- efficacy and critical thinking dispositions of surgical nurses living in a city in the Middle Black Sea region of Turkey. Data were collected via an online survey created with Google Forms from a total of 127 nurses recruited using snowball sampling between June 1 and September 30, 2020. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskall-Wallis test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation analysis were used to evaluate the data. Results: The nurses’ mean critical thinking disposition score was 70.23 (SD=8.41) and their mean emotional self-efficacy score was 88.03 (16.20). There was a weak positive correlation between critical thinking disposition and emotional self-efficacy scores (r=0.213). Conclusion: Critical thinking and emotional self-efficacy are important for healthy clinical decision-making in surgical nurses. In this sense, nurses' critical thinking and emotional self-efficacy were found to be moderate. Emotional self-efficacy is needed to develop critical thinking skills. It is recommended to provide critical thinking and emotional self-efficacy training in order to positively change the quality of the decisions made by surgical nurses during the care process and the quality of care provided.