Strengthening soft skills as the character of student nurses through the preceptorship management model

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BACKGROUND: A nurse is a profession that requires character and soft skills because nursing as a professional discipline has special domain knowledge and skills as well as attitudes or behaviors obtained through academic education and clinical practice experience. These knowledge, skills and attitudes or behaviors are used in service, so this is what distinguishes nurses as professional disciplines, not just academics (professional character). OBJECTIVE: Strengthening soft skills as the character of student nurses through a preceptorship management model. METHODS: A research and development (R&D) was conducted by using reference studies with a quasi-experimental design. The samples in this study were 123 student nurses in odd and even semester of total sampling. The measurement of the professional character of these students used the Professionals Character Questionnaire (PCQ). Data analysis in this study used both descriptive and statistical analysis of Wilcoxon. RESULTS: The characteristics of the student nurses were 60.9% consists of female students (34.1% of the odd semester and 26.8% of the even semester), the youngest age was 19 years and the oldest age was 50 years, the shortest practice period was one month, and the longest was 12 months. The caring character of the student nurses of the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences in even semester was better than the odd semester of 8.2%. The professional character of the student nurses in even semester with a good category was almost three times more than the odd semester of 37.5%. The activism character of the student nurses in even semester with a good category was twice as much compared to the odd semester of 33%. The gender influences the caring character of the student nurses of The Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences at UNIMUS with p-value 0.039. The gender also affects the activism character of student nurse of The Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences at UNIMUS with p-value 0.017. CONCLUSION: There are differences in caring, activism and professionalism between the student nurses of The Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences at UNIMUS in even semester and odd semester with each p-value 0.021 for caring, 0.010 for activism and 0.001 for professionalism

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