• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.74-82
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to investigate factors attecting the core nursing competence of senior nursing students.. The subjects who participated in this study were 178 students in the 4th year of nursing at one college in the Ulsan were surveyed using a structured questionnairs. Independent t-test, one way ANOVA and Pearson's corrlation coefficient, Stepwise regression were performed on the collected data using SPSS 25.0 program. Study finding revealed that major satisfaction(��=0.44, p<.001), clitical thinking(��=0.29, p=.003), nursing professionalism(��=0.22, p=.009), and self-leadership(��=0.17, p<.001) about core nursing competence were siginificant predictive variables(F=7.75, p<.001). This variables accounted for 23.4% of the variance in core nursing competency. Therefore, it is necessary to develp and apply program to improve core nursing competency in senoir nursing students.