Nursing Professional Competency in Thailand 4.0 Era of Undergraduate Nursing Student, Faculty of Nursing, Princess of Naradhiwas University
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Nursing professional competency, Thailand 4.0 Era, Nursing students, Princess of Naradhiwas UniversityAbstract
The objectives of this descriptive research study were to: 1) Examine Thailand's nursing professional competency in the context of the 4.0 era's ethics, morals, and legislation, 2) Examine Thailand's nursing professional competency in the context of the 4.0 era in terms of professional traits, and 3) Examine Thai nursing professionals' competency. 4.0 era in terms of interaction and communication of undergraduate nursing students, Faculty of Nursing, Princess of Naradhiwas University (PNU). Cohen testing was used to determine the sample size for this study, which included 30 third- and fourth-year undergraduate nursing students from the Faculty of Nursing at PNU.
The instruments consisted of: 1) a manual for studying nursing professional competency in Thailand in the 4.0 era that was appropriate for undergraduate nursing students at the faculty of nursing at PNU; and 2) an instrument for data collection that assessed nursing professional competency in Thailand in the 4.0 era that was appropriate for undergraduate nursing students at the faculty of nursing at PNU. All of instruments were validated by three experts. The validity indices all equaled 1. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
The findings revealed that overall of Thailand's nursing professional competency in the context of the 4.0 era was at a high level (M = 4.66, S.D. = 0.32), taking into account that each component was also at a high level as follows: nursing professional competency in regards to ethics, morals, and legislation was at the highest level (M = 4.70, S.D. = 0.31), followed by nursing professional competency in regards to professional traits (M = 4.69, S.D. = 0.35), and nursing professionals' competency of interaction and communication had the lowest levels (M = 4.58, S.D. = 0.38), respectively.
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