Development and preliminary evaluation of a decision coach training module for nurses in Norway.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Shared decision-making (SDM) is a collaborative patient-centred process for arriving at informed healthcare decisions. Decision coaching can help support SDM when combined with patient decision aids. As part of a meta-curriculum "Ready for SDM" for training different healthcare professionals in SDM, we developed and pilot-tested a new module designed to train nurses as decision coaches. The study assessed nurses' perceptions of a decision coach training module, focusing on its feasibility, acceptability and its role in developing decision coaching capabilities.

Methods

We used a two-phase approach guided by the Knowledge-to-Action Framework. In the first phase, we developed a decision coach training module. The second phase involved preliminary testing, using a de

SUBMITTER: Kienlin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11808981 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature