Measuring Bachelor of Science in Nursing competencies in public/population health.

Autor: Swider SM; College of Nursing, Rush University, 600 S. Paulina St., Suite 1028B, Chicago, IL 60612, United States of America. Electronic address: susan_m_swider@rush.edu., Didion J; School of Nursing, Oakland University, Human Health Building, Room 3027, 433 Meadow Brook Road, Rochester, MI 48309-4452, United States of America. Electronic address: jdidion@oakland.edu., Campbell L; School of Nursing, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, MS 8212, Lubbock, TX 79430, United States of America. Electronic address: lisa.a.campbell@ttuhsc.edu., Stanley J; American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 655 K Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, United States of America. Electronic address: jstanley@aacnnursing.org., Price MM; School of Nursing, Duke University, 307 Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27710, United States of America. Electronic address: marva.price@duke.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing [J Prof Nurs] 2022 Nov-Dec; Vol. 43, pp. 145-151. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 24.
DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2022.10.006
Abstrakt: Nurses have a long history of practice in public health. More recently basic population health knowledge and skills are being required across all nursing practice settings. To prepare nurses for this practice nursing education has long included public or community health nursing (PHN) content and skills as part of prelicensure education at the baccalaureate level and above. However, little work has been done to document student competency in these areas. Competency-based education is a process whereby students are held accountable for the mastery of knowledge and skills deemed critical for an area of study. The AACN Public/Population Health Workgroup addressed the challenge of measuring baccalaureate student nursing competencies in population health by developing an unfolding case study, with embedded questions assessing selected competencies. Lacking established population health competencies in nursing curriculum at the time of this work but wanting to assess students' basic competencies across the care continuum, the Workgroup selected relevant competencies from the Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations (formerly called the Quad Council) Competencies for Public Health Nurses. Utilizing these selected competencies, the Workgroup devised the unfolding case study and piloted it with 275 baccalaureate nursing education programs across the country. The findings from the Pilot demonstrated nursing student competency achievement and how this achievement changed as students progressed through the curriculum. The authors report implications and recommendations for competency measurement in population health based on the results of the pilot.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
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