Nursing Student’s Level of Preparedness and Readiness for Future Clinical Practices: An Assessment

Clinical experience is an essential part of the nursing curriculum and plays a crucial role in shaping the student nurses’ basic skills and professional abilities. This quantitative study aimed to identify the level of preparedness and readiness of nursing students for their future clinical practice. Moreover, descriptive-evaluative, descriptive-comparative, and descriptive-correlational designs were used to evaluate the level of preparedness and readiness and examine the relationships and differences between variables under the study. The researchers used a researcher-made questionnaire to gather nursing students' level of preparedness and readiness and also participated in a total enumeration of the third, and fourth-year nursing students enrolled at Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation and Manuel S. Enverga University Candelaria. To analyze the significance of the variables, the researchers utilized the spearman rho and mann whitney u test. Based on the results of the study, there is a significant relationship between the readiness of the ability of nursing students towards their future clinical practice to their level of preparedness in terms of their skills for their future clinical practice. These findings hope to contribute to the planning and implementation of excellent education and training while considering the variables. Moreover, this will serve as guide to nursing students in preparedness and readiness for clinical practice that needs improvement for them to be clinically confident and skillful.