Research Unit of Nursing Science and Health Management, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Lapland UAS, Kemi, Finland.
Nurs Open. 2022 Jan;9(1):199-209. doi: 10.1002/nop2.1054. Epub 2021 Sep 17.
The study aimed to describe and explain the self-assessed gerontological nursing competence levels of Finnish nursing students and factors relating to it.
A cross-sectional study design, reported by The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology guidelines.
Data were collected with the GeroNursingCom instrument, which features 53 items relating to 11 competence factors. The K-clustering technique and the Chi-squared, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann Whitney tests were used to analyse the data.
Seven hundred and ninety-nine nursing students from nine randomly selected higher education institutions were invited to participate in 2019. Three distinct student profiles were identified according to the data (N = 274): Profile A-lower intermediate competence (23.1% of students), Profile B-intermediate competence (45.8%) and Profile C-high competence (31.1%). The strongest competence area for all students was appreciative encounter and interaction, and the weakest was supporting the older person's sexuality. Nursing students have diverse backgrounds and their overall competence in gerontological nursing is shaped in part by their previous education, motivations and work experience.
Recognizing students' different gerontological nursing competence profiles enables the implementation of targeted education to improve competence in clinical practice.
本研究旨在描述和解释芬兰护理学生自我评估的老年护理能力水平及其相关因素。
横断面研究设计，按照《加强观察性研究的报告：流行病学指南》进行报告。
使用 GeroNursingCom 工具收集数据，该工具包含与 11 个能力因素相关的 53 个项目。采用 K 聚类技术以及卡方检验、克鲁斯卡尔-沃利斯检验和曼-惠特尼检验对数据进行分析。
2019 年，从九所随机选定的高等教育机构邀请了 799 名护理学生参与研究。根据数据确定了三种不同的学生特征（N=274）：特征 A-较低的中级能力（23.1%的学生）、特征 B-中级能力（45.8%）和特征 C-高能力（31.1%）。所有学生最强的能力领域是欣赏性的相遇和互动，最弱的是支持老年人的性行为。护理学生具有不同的背景，他们在老年护理方面的整体能力部分取决于他们之前的教育、动机和工作经验。
识别学生不同的老年护理能力特征，能够实施有针对性的教育，提高临床实践中的能力。
