Self-efficacy has a pretty big impact in nursing education, it kind of shapes how students feel about themselves how they come up with clinical decisions, and how well they carry out patient care steps, especially when it really counts. When we talk about essential newborn care (ENC), nursing students really have to build competence and that inner confidence so they can manage everyday newborn routines, as well as those urgent, surprise moments. Simulation training is getting more like an innovative teaching tactic, it allows learners to gather experience through realistic clinical situations, you know, the kind that feel close to actual practice. This paper looks at what simulation training does to self-efficacy in essential newborn care among nursing students. A quantitative pre-test and post-test design is planned, to see how students’ self-efficacy levels shift after simulation based learning. Results from earlier work suggest that simulation training boosts confidence in a noticeable way, plus psychomotor abilities, clinical reasoning and overall readiness for neonatal care.   Over all, the paper points out the learning worth of simulation, like it helps nursing students do safer, more effective newborn care. The conclusions also encourage putting simulation based activities into nursing curricula, so learning outcomes improve and neonatal healthcare quality gets better as well.