Nurse students' competences in interprofessional pharmaceutical care in Europe: Cross-sectional evaluation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F22%3A10450841" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/22:10450841 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WjAEWMYOWw" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WjAEWMYOWw</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2022.103485" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.nepr.2022.103485</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Nurse students' competences in interprofessional pharmaceutical care in Europe: Cross-sectional evaluation
Original language description
Background: Safe pharmaceutical care requires competent nurses with specific knowledge, skills and attitudes. It is unclear whether nursing students are adequately prepared to perform pharmaceutical care in practice. Mapping their pharmaceutical care competences can lead to a better understanding of the extent to which curricula fit expectations of the labour market.Objectives: To assess pharmaceutical care competences of final-year nursing students of different educational levels.Design: A cross-sectional survey design. Settings: In 14 European countries, nursing schools who offer curricula for level 4 to 7 students were approached.Participants: Through convenience sampling 1741 final-year student nurses of level 4 to 7 were included. Sam-pling strategies were country-specific. Methods: A web-platform was developed with an assessment of the level in which students mastered pharma-ceutical care competences. Knowledge questions, case studies (basic/advanced level), self-reported practical skills and attitudes were evaluated.Results: Mean scores for knowledge questions differed significantly (p < 0.001) between level 5 (56/100), level 6 (68/100) and level 7 students (72/100). For basic cases level 5 students reached lower scores (64/100) compared with level 6 (71/100) and level 7 (72/100) students (p = 0.002 and p = 0.005). For more advanced cases no difference between levels was observed (overall mean 61/100). Most students (63-90 %) considered themselves skilled to perform pharmaceutical care and had positive attitudes towards their participation in pharmaceutical care (65-97 %).Conclusions: Relatively low knowledge scores were calculated for final-year student nurses. In some domains, lower levels of students might be insufficiently prepared to take up responsibilities in pharmaceutical care. Our assessment can be used as a tool for educators to evaluate how prepared nursing students are for pharmaceutical care. Its further implementation for students of different educational levels will allow benchmarking between the levels, both within and between countries.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30307 - Nursing
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nurse Education in Practice
ISSN
1471-5953
e-ISSN
1873-5223
Volume of the periodical
65
Issue of the periodical within the volume
November
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
103485
UT code for WoS article
000882477200007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141277217