Background: Self-efficacy plays important role in providing care for patient by nurses independently. In addition, the most important method to enhance the quality of nursing care is to use standards in care. Thus, the objective of this research is to evaluate the effect of clinical education based on nursing process on self-efficacy.Methods: This research is an experimental study. Samples of this research included fifth semester nursing students (n=24). Subjects were randomly assigned into two groups of intervention (n = 12) and control (n = 12). Theintervention factor was providing nursing care based on the nursing process and data collection tool included generalized self-efficacy questionnaire. It included 17 questions in four clinical, theory, motivational, and organizational domains. To determine the validity of the tool, face and content validity methods were used and the Cronbach's alpha to determine the reliability of the tool was obtained to be 0.82. The data were analyzed using SPSS 19 software and Chi-square, and Mann-Whitney tests.Results: In this research, 18 subjects (75%) were male and 6 subjects (25%) were female. The age range of them was 21-27 years old. The Mann-Whitney test in comparing the two groups revealed no significant difference in mean score of self-efficacy before the program implementation, but the mean scores were increased in the intervention group after educating the nursing process domains and this increase was statistically significant (p<0.001).Discussion and Conclusion: The current research showed that nursing process education is effective in improving self-efficacy and increased clinical self-efficacy leads to improved clinical performance. Thus, educators of this profession should pay special attention to their teaching method in this regard.
