Title: Relationship of 3Qs to the clinical decision making of fourth year student nurses in a private higher education institution in Baguio City
Abstract:
This study aims to determine the relationship between emotional, adversity, and social quotient and the clinical decision-making abilities of fourth-year student nurses, as well as the levels of these variables. Clinical decision-making is a vital nursing function that ensures safe and effective patient outcomes. While cognitive abilities are foundational, non-cognitive traits such as emotional, adversity, and social quotients may also influence students’ decision-making processes. However, limited literature has explored these traits in relation to clinical decision-making, particularly among student nurses in the Philippine context. Descriptive-correlational design was used among 218 fourth-year nursing students from a private higher education institution in Baguio City, selected through systematic random sampling. Standardized tools assessed emotional, adversity, and social quotients, as well as clinical decision-making. Data were collected through printed surveys and analyzed using weighted mean and Spearman’s rho. There was a statistically significant moderate positive correlation between each quotient and clinical decision-making (EQ r = .44; AQ r = .51; SQ r = .51, p < 0.05). Most students demonstrated high level of clinical decision-making (M = 79.75), a high level of adversity quotient (M = 48.75), and a high level of social quotient (M = 71.00). The emotional quotient had a moderately high level (M = 92.75). Emotional, adversity, and social quotients are positively associated with clinical decision-making. Integrating these non-cognitive traits into nursing education may enhance students’ clinical decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and strengthen readiness for real-life clinical practice.
