Assessment of Life Skills Among Basic B.Sc. Nursing First Year Students: A Cross Sectional Study

Background of the study: The world is advancing with a high pace in terms of technology in every field facilitating human habitation. Health care is now a competence-based task with challenges awaiting perfection and precision. Nursing students need to cope up with this speed and learn the basics with technical advancements. Life skills are the core skills that make a person use his/her maximum potential in achieving the challenging tasks in learning.
Aim: A cross sectional study to assess the life skills among the Basic BSc Nursing First year students.
Method: It was a Descriptive cross-sectional study with a sample of 129 Basic B.Sc. Nursing First year students of Sajjalashree Institute of Nursing Sciences Navanagar, Bagalkot. and Sharadambe Institute of Nursing Sciences Vidyagiri. Bagalkot selected complete enumeration sampling technique. Life skill Assessment Scale was used to collected data regarding Life skills. Chi square test was used to determine the association between global life skill scores of nursing students and their socio demographic factors.
Results: the mean age of the sample was 20.42 + 3.6 years 79.1% females, and 20.9% males. The mean global life skill score was 241.50 + 31.09, ranging between 162 to 315. No significant association was found between global life skill scores and socio demographic factors.
Conclusion: Most (51.6%) of the Nursing students had average life skills. The nursing students life skills must be strengthened by proper training.

Keywords: Basic B.Sc. Nursing, students, Life skill, nursing institution