Saleh Usama, O'Connor Tom, Afaneh Tareq, Moore Zena, Patton Declan, Derwin Rosemarie
RCSI School of Nursing & Midwifery, Ireland.
King Abdullah Medical City, Saudi Arabia.
Nurse Educ Today. 2017 Oct;57:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.06.007. Epub 2017 Jun 24.
Strategies to ensure that nursing competence is maintained and validated are of increasing importance and are much discussed in the nursing literature. Professional bodies, employers, nurses themselves and most importantly patients need to have reassurance that competence across the profession is uniform and is maintained. This is of particular concern in the increasingly globalised and multinational workforces which exist in many health care institutions. This paper describes an educational initiative, and the evaluation thereof, which aimed to validate and enhance nurse competency in a multinational workforce in a medical city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Results indicate that there was variability in competencies across the organisation which allowed for targeted educational interventions. The initiative was well received by the nurses in the organisation and the evaluation points to the need for ongoing strategies to ensure that competence in maintained.
确保护理能力得以维持和验证的策略愈发重要，且在护理文献中备受讨论。专业团体、雇主、护士自身，以及最重要的患者，都需要确信整个行业的能力是统一且持续保持的。在许多医疗机构中存在的日益全球化和多国化的劳动力队伍中，这一点尤为令人关注。本文描述了一项教育举措及其评估，该举措旨在验证和提升沙特阿拉伯王国一个医疗城市中多国劳动力队伍的护士能力。结果表明，整个组织的能力存在差异，这使得有针对性的教育干预成为可能。该举措在组织内的护士中受到好评，评估结果表明需要持续采取策略以确保能力得以维持。
