Standard Competence of Medical-Surgical Nursing Based on The Level of Clinical Competency Outcome in DIII Vocational Students of Nursing

This research are aimed to know: 1) the achievment level of clinical competence of medical-surgical nursing among DIII vocational students of nursing, 2) the standard competence of medical-surgical nursing based hospital among DIII vocational students of nursing. The reseach metheod was using descriptive qualitative. The subjects of the study were diploma III vocational students from three health education institutions with totaling of 155 people. Quantitative descriptive data analysis was used to answer the research questions. The research instrument had been validated by medical surgical nursing specialists, experts of assessment evaluation, and vocational education experts. The results of the study found that (1) The level of competency achievement of all competencies with average level was between 3 to 4; (2) there were 33 major competency types at levels of 3 and 4 considered as the standards competence of medical surgical nursing. Based on the results of the research, the level and competence of medical surgical nursing standard can be used as a reference in practice learning of DIII vocational students of nursing in hospital.