Graduating Nursing Students' Empowerment and Related Factors: Comparative Study in Six European Countries
Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE Language English Country Switzerland Media electronic
Document type Journal Article
Grant support
2017_2018
THE FINNISH NURSING EDUCATION FOUNDATION SR
PubMed
35627891
PubMed Central
PMC9140337
DOI
10.3390/healthcare10050754
PII: healthcare10050754
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- competence, empowerment, intention to leave, nursing education, nursing students,
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
New nurses are needed in healthcare. To meet the role expectations of a registered nurse, nursing students must feel empowered at graduation. However, there are only a few studies focusing on nursing students' empowerment. This study aims to describe and analyze graduating nursing students' level of empowerment in six European countries and potential related factors. A comparative and cross-sectional study was performed in the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain with graduating nursing students (n = 1746) using the Essential Elements of Nurse Empowerment scale. Potentially related factors included age, gender, a previous degree in health care, work experience in health care, graduation to first-choice profession, intention to leave the nursing profession, level of study achievements, satisfaction with the current nursing programme, clinical practicums, theoretical education, and generic competence measured with the Nurse Competence Scale. The data were analysed statistically. Graduating nursing students' self-assessed level of empowerment was moderate, with statistical differences between countries. Those with high empowerment had no intention to leave the nursing profession, had a higher level of study achievements, and a higher self-assessed generic competence level. The results suggest that empowerment needs to be enhanced during nursing education. Further research is needed to understand the development of empowerment during the early years of a nursing career.
Azienda per i Servizi Sanitari Provinciali University of Verona 38123 Trento Italy
Department of Biostatistics University of Turku 20014 Turku Finland
Department of Medicine Udine University 33100 Udine Italy
Department of Nursing Administration Lisbon School of Nursing ESEL 1600 096 Lisbon Portugal
Department of Nursing Science University of Eastern Finland 70211 Kuopio Finland
Department of Nursing Science University of Turku 20014 Turku Finland
Diaconia University of Applied Sciences 00580 Helsinki Finland
School of Health Care Savonia University of Applied Sciences 70201 Kuopio Finland
School of Health Sciences University of Aveiro 3810 193 Aveiro Portugal
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