Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, Institute of Gerontology, Aging Research Network-Jönköping, S-551 11 Jönköping, Sweden.
University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Health and Caring Sciences, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden.
Nurse Educ Today. 2018 Jul;66:187-193. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2018.04.006. Epub 2018 Apr 13.
During the nursing programme in Sweden, students complete an independent project that allows them to receive both a professional qualification as a nurse and a Bachelor's degree. This project gives students the opportunity to develop and apply skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making, thus preparing them for their future work. However, only a few, small-scale studies have analysed the independent project to gain more insight into how nursing students carry out this task.
The aim of the present study was to describe the methods, including ethical considerations and assessment of data quality, applied in nursing students' independent Bachelor's degree projects in a Swedish context.
A descriptive study with a quantitative approach.
A total of 490 independent projects were analysed using descriptive statistics.
Literature reviews were the predominant project form. References were often used to support the analysis method. They were not, however, always relevant to the method. This was also true of ethical considerations. When a qualitative approach was used, and data collected through interviews, the participants were typically professionals. In qualitative projects involving analysis of biographies/autobiographies or blogs participants were either persons with a disease or next of kin of a person with a disease.
Although most of the projects were literature reviews, it seemed unclear to the nursing students how the data should be analysed as well as what ethical issues should be raised in relation to the method. Consequently, further research and guidance are needed. In Sweden, independent projects are not considered research and are therefore not required to undergo ethics vetting. However, it is important that they be designed so as to avoid possible research ethics problems. Asking persons about their health, which occurred in some of the empirical projects, may therefore be considered questionable.
在瑞典的护理项目中，学生完成一个独立项目，使他们既能获得护士的专业资格，又能获得学士学位。这个项目让学生有机会发展和应用批判性思维、解决问题和决策等技能，为他们未来的工作做好准备。然而，只有少数小规模的研究分析了独立项目，以更深入地了解护理学生如何完成这项任务。
本研究的目的是描述在瑞典背景下，护理专业学生独立进行学士论文项目时所采用的方法，包括伦理考虑和数据质量评估。
具有定量方法的描述性研究。
使用描述性统计分析了 490 个独立项目。
文献综述是主要的项目形式。参考文献常用于支持分析方法，但并不总是与方法相关。这也适用于伦理考虑。当使用定性方法并通过访谈收集数据时，参与者通常是专业人员。在涉及分析传记/自传或博客的定性项目中，参与者要么是患有疾病的人，要么是患有疾病的人的近亲。
尽管大多数项目都是文献综述，但护理学生似乎不清楚应该如何分析数据，以及应该提出哪些与方法相关的伦理问题。因此，需要进一步的研究和指导。在瑞典，独立项目不被视为研究，因此不需要进行伦理审查。然而，重要的是要设计好这些项目，以避免可能出现的研究伦理问题。在一些实证项目中询问人们的健康状况可能会引起质疑。
