Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, SE 20506 Sweden and Society, Malmö University, SE 20506, Sweden; Municipal Healthcare in Hässleholm, Management of Care and Welfare, Löjtnants Granlunds Väg 12, SE 28152, Sweden.
Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, SE 20506 Sweden and Society, Malmö University, SE 20506, Sweden.
Nurse Educ Today. 2021 Mar;98:104650. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104650. Epub 2020 Nov 11.
Globally, the role of nurse practitioner is evolving to meet increased healthcare demands. Nevertheless, there are factors hindering the development of this role, one of which involves differences in nurse practitioner education worldwide. Therefore, the objective of the present study is to identify what is known in the research field on the content of nurse practitioner educational programmes.
The literature scoping review follows a six-stage methodological framework including: i) formulate research questions, ii) identify relevant studies, iii) select studies, iv) chart data, v) collate, summarize and report the results, vi) consultations. Data bases searched included CINAHL, PubMed and ERIC and were followed by manual searching of reference list in the included papers. Of the 1553 papers identified, 16 met the aim of this study.
To answer the research questions 'what is the content of curricula in nurse practitioner education?' a deductive content analysis was used.
Two main categories emerged. The first was related to the professional nurse practitioner role and includes research and nursing theories, leadership and collaboration, and organizational, political, economic, regulatory and legislative issues. The second is related to becoming an autonomous practitioner and includes health promotion and disease prevention, and other medically oriented content.
The content identified is consistent with the core competencies that nurse practitioners are expected to have after graduation, which have been described by the International Council of Nurses and by other researchers. Given the lack of recent research in nurse practitioner education, the results of the present study advance knowledge in this research field. Additionally, this study may be of practical value in developing new nurse practitioner educational programmes.
在全球范围内，护士从业者的角色正在发展以满足不断增长的医疗保健需求。然而，有一些因素阻碍了这一角色的发展，其中之一涉及全球护士从业者教育的差异。因此，本研究的目的是确定在护士从业者教育计划的内容研究领域中已知的内容。
文献范围审查遵循包括以下六个阶段的方法框架：i）制定研究问题，ii）确定相关研究，iii）选择研究，iv）图表数据，v）整理、总结和报告结果，vi）咨询。搜索的数据库包括 CINAHL、PubMed 和 ERIC，并随后对纳入论文的参考文献进行手动搜索。在确定的 1553 篇论文中，有 16 篇符合本研究的目的。
为了回答研究问题“护士从业者教育课程的内容是什么？”，使用了演绎内容分析。
出现了两个主要类别。第一个与专业护士从业者角色有关，包括研究和护理理论、领导力和协作以及组织、政治、经济、监管和立法问题。第二个与成为自主从业者有关，包括健康促进和疾病预防以及其他医学导向的内容。
确定的内容与国际护士理事会和其他研究人员所描述的护士从业者毕业后预期拥有的核心能力一致。鉴于护士从业者教育方面缺乏最近的研究，本研究的结果推进了该研究领域的知识。此外，本研究对于开发新的护士从业者教育计划可能具有实际价值。
