A study on the relationship between Self-efficacy of Clinical practice and Nursing Students' Creativity

Education Centers that focus on results-oriented training make a huge effort to support learning knowledge, skill, attitude and necessary competencies by students. However, proper training focuses on expanding knowledge, skill and attitudes, scholars increasingly focus on the role of thoughts, attitudes and cognitive processing of students on learning processes. Self-efficacy is of the important elements in learning process. Self-efficacy theory has rooted in Bandura's Social cognitive theory in which a comprehensive framework to understanding social behavior and define humans’ performance is proposed. In other words, creativity is another element among those elements associated to process of learning and clinical efficacy. As creative abilities can be useful in nursing profession, definitely it can state that creativity affects academic achievements. Hence, given the effectiveness of clinical self-efficacy as discussed in this study, it is essential to act for enhancing creativity in students if required, concerning provisions to increase self-efficacy of clinical practice.Materials and methods: in this analytic-descriptive study, 60 nursing students were selected so as to examine the relationship between Self-efficacy of Clinical practice and Nursing Students’ Creativity.Conclusion: research findings indicated that increasing self-efficacy in students can be associated to increasing creativity, and as creativity is an element associated to different elements, thus it can state that increasing self-efficacy in individual can be resulted in increasing the ability to generate various ideas in exposure to new conditions that required problem resolving, where such an ability associates to fluidity element in creativity.