<![CDATA[ABSTRAKLatar Belakang: Pembelajaran laboratorium adalah bagian penting dari proses pendidikan yang kompleks untuk mempersiapkan kemampuan mahasiswa dalam melakukan ketrampilan saat menghadapi ujian skills laboratorium. Masalah dalam pembelajaran laboratorium yaitu mahasiswa tidak melakukan redemonstrasi karena kurang motivasi dan meremehkan, kurang keberanian mahasiswa untuk mencoba, merasa sudah tahu, anggapan keterampilan yang dipelajari kurang menantang, waktu yang terbatas, serta keterbatasan alat praktek. Kondisi tersebut dapat memengaruhi kemampuan skill mahasiswa saat ujian ketrampilan laboratorium yang nantinya akan memengaruhi psikologis mahasiswa. Tujuan penelitian: untuk mengetahui bagaimana hubungan ketersediaan sarana sebagai penunjang ketrampilan mahasiswa dengan kecemasan menghadapi ujian skills laboratorium. Metode: Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian gabungan model sekuensial eksplanatori, yang melibatkan mahasiswa, dosen dan laboran. Data dianalisis dengan uji statistik Kruskal Wallis, dilanjutkan dengan analisis kualitatif secara manual dengan pengkategorian makna final kemudian disimpulkan dari kedua analisis tersebut. Hasil: Hasil penelitian secara kuantitatif dengan uji statistik Kruskal Wallis didapatkan hubungan yang tidak signifikan pada ketrampilan mahasiswa dengan kecemasan mahasiswa program studi (prodi) Diploma III Keperawatan dalam menghadapi ujian skills laboratorium. Hasil uji kualitatif didapatkan empat tema yaitu ketersediaan alat, efektifitas dalam praktek, kecukupan sumber dan metode untuk menurunkan kecemasan. Diskusi: meskipun keberadaan sarana atau alat sebagai sumber belajar dan keefektifan mahasiswa saat praktikum dipandang kurang mendukung ketrampilannya, tetapi mahasiswa mampu mengendalikan kecemasan yang mereka alami. Simpulan: kecemasan mahasiswa berada pada tingkat ringan, tidak terdapat hubungan antara ketersediaan sarana untuk ketrampilan mahasiswa dengan kecemasan dalam menghadapi ujian skills laboratorium.Kata kunci: cemas, mahasiswa keperawatan, ujian skills laboratorium, sarana laboratoriumRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AVAILABILITY OF FACILITIES FOR STUDENT SKILLS WITH ANXIETY IN FACING LABORATORY SKILLS EXAMINATION: A MIXED METHODS STUDYABSTRACTBackground: Laboratory skills is an important part of a complex educational process order to ability of students in performing skills when facing a laboratory skills examination. A problem in laboratory learning is that students do not perform re-demonstration because they lack motivation and underestimate, are afraid to try, think they already know, think that skills are less challenging, have limited time, and equipment is limited. These conditions may affect the ability of student’s skills during the laboratory skills examination which will later affect their psychology. Objective: To identify the relationship between the availability of facilities to support student skills with anxiety in facing the laboratory skills examination. Methods: This research employed a mixed methods research of explanatory sequential models, involving students, lecturers and laboratory staff. Data were analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis statistical test, followed by using qualitative analysis manually by categorizing the final significance and concluded from both analyses. Results: The quantitative research results by using the Kruskal-Wallis statistical test indicated that there was no significant relationship of the student skills on the anxiety in students of Diploma Nursing program in facing the laboratory skills examination. The qualitative test results indicatedfour themes, namely availability of equipment, effectiveness in practice, and adequacy of resources and methods to decrease the anxiety. Discussion: Although the availability of facilities or equipment as a source of learning and effectiveness of students during practicum is considered not supporting their skills, students are able to control their anxiety. Conclusion: Students has mild anxiety; there is no significant relationship between the availability offacilities for student skills with anxiety in facing laboratory skills examination.Keywords: anxiety, nursing students, laboratory skills examination, facilities of laboratory]]>
