Nursing students' competence profiles in gerontological nursing-A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The study aimed to describe and explain the self-assessed gerontological nursing competence levels of Finnish nursing students and factors relating to it.

Design

A cross-sectional study design, reported by The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology guidelines.

Methods

Data were collected with the GeroNursingCom instrument, which features 53 items relating to 11 competence factors. The K-clustering technique and the Chi-squared, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann Whitney tests were used to analyse the data.

Results

Seven hundred and ninety-nine nursing students from nine randomly selected higher education institutions were invited to participate in 2019. Three distinct student profiles were identified according to the data (N = 274): Profi

SUBMITTER: Tohmola A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8685838 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature