Determinants of Problem-Solving Skills of Nursing Students: Solution-Focused Thinking Skills and Emotional Intelligence

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI:10.1111/jep.14312

Alime Selçuk Tosun, Nurcan Akgül Gündoğdu, Dilek Avci, Emine Selda Gündüz

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Abstract

Background

Problem-solving skills are some of the leading strategies for dynamism in the content and quality of nursing care.

Aim

The present study is aimed at determining nursing students' problem-solving, solution-focused thinking, and emotional intelligence levels and investigating the relationship between their problem-solving skills and these variables.

Methods

The study comprised 305 nursing students in Turkey. Data were collected between May and June 2021, using the personal information form, problem-solving inventory, solution-focused inventory and Schutte emotional intelligence scale. One-way ANOVA, t-test and multiple regression were used for data analysis.

Results

The mean age of the participants was 21.81 ± 5.93 years, 75.7% of them were women, 35.1% were senior students and 58.0% perceived their academic achievement as moderate. The mean scores from the overall problem-solving inventory, solution-focused inventory, and emotional intelligence scale were 92.93 ± 19.30, 50.26 ± 8.43 and 128.22 ± 14.11, respectively. Variables such as sex, perceived academic achievement, emotional intelligence and solution-focused thinking levels affected problem-solving skills (p < 0.01). The effective predictive factors accounted for 50.2% of the change in participants' problem-solving skill levels.

Conclusion

For this reason, revising the national nursing curriculum with programmes that develop emotional intelligence and solution-focused thinking skills will enable nursing students to better manage the nursing process in clinical and field practices.

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护理学生解决问题能力的决定因素：解决问题的思维能力和情绪智力。

背景：解决问题的能力是在护理内容和质量的动态的一些主要策略。目的：本研究旨在测定护生的问题解决能力、解决焦点思维能力和情绪智力水平，并探讨其问题解决能力与这些变量的关系。方法：对土耳其305名护理专业学生进行研究。数据是在2021年5月至6月期间收集的，使用了个人信息表、问题解决量表、以解决方案为重点的量表和舒特情商量表。采用单因素方差分析、t检验和多元回归进行数据分析。结果：参与者的平均年龄为21.81±5.93岁，女性占75.7%，高年级学生占35.1%，学业成绩为中等的占58.0%。整体问题解决量表、解决焦点量表和情绪智力量表的平均得分分别为92.93±19.30、50.26±8.43和128.22±14.11。性别、学术成就、情绪智力和以解决问题为中心的思维水平等变量会影响解决问题的能力(p结论：基于这个原因，修改国家护理课程，加入培养情绪智力和以解决问题为中心的思维技能的课程，将使护理学生在临床和现场实践中更好地管理护理过程。

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.