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Self-assessed competence and need for further training among registered nurses in somatic hospital wards in Sweden: a cross-sectional survey
Örebro University, School of Medical Sciences. Örebro University Hospital. Clinical Skills Center, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden.
Department of Health Science, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden; Department of Health care Sciences, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Stockholm, Sweden.
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9209-5179
Department of Health Science, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden; Faculty of Health and Welfare, Östfold University College Fredrikstad, Halden, Norway.
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2020 (English)In: BMC Nursing, E-ISSN 1472-6955, Vol. 19, no 1, article id 74Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Background: Professional competence and continuous professional development is essential for ensuring high quality and safe nursing care, and it might be important for motivating nurses to stay in the profession. Thus, there is a need to identify the developmental process of nursing competency. Assessment of competence and need for further training helps to identify areas for quality improvement, and to design interventions in order to facilitate continuous competence development in different work contexts. The current study aimed to 1) describe registered nurses' self-assessment of clinical competence as well as the need for further training, and 2) explore possible differences between registered nurses with varying lengths of professional experience as a nurse (≤ 0,5 year, > 0,5-5 years, and ≥ 6 years).

Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was applied, using the Professional Nurse Self-Assessment Scale of clinical core competencies II. Registered nurses (n = 266) working in medical and surgical contexts in hospitals in Sweden responded (response rate 51%). Independent student t-test and analysis of variance were carried out.

Results: Registered nurses assessed their competence highest in statements related to cooperation with other health professionals; taking full responsibility for own activities; and acting ethically when caring for patients. They assessed their need for further training most for statements related to assessing patients' health needs by telephone; giving health promotion advice and recommendations to patients by telephone; as well as improving a creative learning environment for staff at the workplace. For self-assessed competence and need for further training, differences between the groups for 35 and 46 items respectively, out of 50 were statistically significant.

Conclusions: Although the registered nurses assessed their competence high for important competence components expected of professionals such as cooperation with other healthcare professionals, it is problematic that knowledge of interactions and side-effects of different types of medication were reported as having the highest need of training. Longitudinal follow up of newly graduated nurses regarding their continuous development of competence as well as further training is needed.

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BioMed Central, 2020. Vol. 19, no 1, article id 74
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Clinical competence, Nurse competence, Registered nurses, Self-assessment
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-84756DOI: 10.1186/s12912-020-00466-2ISI: 000560171300001PubMedID: 32774153Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85089486114OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-84756DiVA, id: diva2:1462174
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Örebro University NURS-D-20-00025

Available from: 2020-08-28 Created: 2020-08-28 Last updated: 2024-07-04Bibliographically approved

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