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Nurse educator competence in four European countries—A comparative cross-sectional study




TekijätElonen Imane, Kajander-Unkuri Satu, Cassar Maria, Wennberg-Capellades Laia, Kean Susanne, Sollár Tomáš, Saaranen Terhi, Pasanen Miko, Salminen Leena

KustantajaWiley

KustannuspaikkaHoboken

Julkaisuvuosi2023

JournalNursing Open

eISSN2054-1058

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.2033

Verkko-osoitehttps://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.2033

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/181550152


Tiivistelmä
Aim

The aim of this article is to describe and compare the nurse educator competences in four European countries using three different evaluators: nurse educators (n = 329), heads of a nursing subject (n = 60) and student nurses (n = 1058).

Design

The study was conducted as a comparative cross-sectional survey in Finland, Malta, Slovakia and Spain between May 2021 and February 2022.

Methods

The data were collected with an online survey. The instrument used was a 20-item Tool for Evaluation of Requirements of Nurse Teachers, utilizing a 5-point Likert-type scale. The data were analysed statistically and reported according to STROBE guidelines.

Results

Nurse educators' competence evaluated positively in all the groups of evaluators, with a mean of >3.5. The self-evaluation of nurse educators' competence was higher than the other evaluators' evaluations. Having a degree in nursing, having completed some pedagogical studies and longer work experience as a nurse educator had a positive association with higher self-evaluated competence among nurse educators.

Conclusions

Nurse educator competence is at a good level in the selected European countries, but further studies are required to find the reasons behind the differences in evaluations.

Public Contribution

Each participating educational institution named a contact person who distributed the surveys to the participants and returned the study's metadata to the researchers.


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