Investigation on practice ability of evidence-based nursing among nursing students of different grades

Abstract: Aim: To investigate the practice ability of evidence-based nursing among nursing students ofdifferent grades.Method: This study is descriptive and adopts a convenient sampling method, 184 nursingstudents from freshmen to juniors of Lishui University were be selected as the researchobjects, and a questionnaire survey was conducted. Research tools include a generalinformation questionnaire and an EBP-COQ scale questionnaire. The statistical softwareSPSS23 was used to carry out the T-test, analysis of variance, and Pearson correlationanalysis on the recovered sample data.Results: Scores of various dimensions of the certified nursing ability of students of differentgrades in Lishui College: Mean EBP Score is 2.5171±0.4812, EBP Attitude Score is2.3279±0.4709, EBP Skill Score is 2.8903±0.6739 and EBP Knowledge Score is 2.9103±0.7130.Standard deviation represents the mean plus or minus standard deviation of the Mean EBPScore, EBP Attitude Score, EBP Skill Score, and EBP Knowledge Score. According to the meanvalue, the mean value of the EBP Knowledge Score is higher than that of the other threedimensions. And the smaller the standard deviation, the less these values deviate from themean, similarly, the EBP Knowledge Score has the largest standard deviation. Grade-relatedexperience、internship experience have statistical significance on the difference in nursingstudents' ability of EBP.Conclusions：This study investigated the foreign general self-efficacy scale based onChinese cultural background. This study shows that grade level affects the ability to practiceevidence-based nursing, which means that as the grade level increases, the accumulatedexperience with EBP increases and the ability increase, if nursing students are in a highergrade, they will have more experience and knowledge about EBP. This study is only aimed atthe sample survey of students at Lishui University, so the sample inevitably has limitations,and there are many uncertain factors in the collection of online questionnaires. Therefore,future studies need to further test、improve the sample size to choose a more appropriatecollection method.Key words: nursing students；ability of evidence-based-nursing；different grades