East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 5-2020 The Relationship of Self-Efficacy and Clinical Reasoning of Undergraduate Nursing Students Amy G. Holder East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the Other Nursing Commons Recommended Citation Holder, Amy G., "The Relationship of Self-Efficacy and Clinical Reasoning of Undergraduate Nursing Students" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3710. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3710 This Dissertation - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Relationship of Self-Efficacy and Clinical Reasoning of Undergraduate Nursing Students _____________________________ A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Nursing East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing _____________________________ by Amy Holder May 2020 _______________________________ Sharon Loury, Ph.D., RN, Chair Teresa Carnevale, Ph.D., RN Member Myra Carew, Ph.D., RN Member Daniel J. Pesut, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Member RuthAnne Kuiper, Ph.D., RN, ANEF, Member Keywords: Self-Efficacy, Clinical Reasoning, Undergraduate, Nursing, Student ABSTRACT The Relationship of Self-Efficacy and Clinical Reasoning of Undergraduate Nursing Students by Amy Holder Aim. This investigation aimed to discover if a there is a correlation between a student’s clinical reasoning self-efficacy and a student’s actual clinical reasoning ability.