Nurse educator competence in four European countries—A comparative cross‐sectional study

Author:

Elonen Imane1ORCID,Kajander‐Unkuri Satu12ORCID,Cassar Maria3ORCID,Wennberg‐Capellades Laia4ORCID,Kean Susanne5ORCID,Sollár Tomáš6ORCID,Saaranen Terhi7ORCID,Pasanen Miko1ORCID,Salminen Leena18ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine University of Turku Turku Finland

2. Diaconia University of Applied Sciences Helsinki Finland

3. Department of Nursing University of Malta Msida Malta

4. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Barcelona Spain

5. School of Health in Social Science, Nursing Studies The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Scotland

6. Department of Psychological Sciences Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Nitra Slovakia

7. Department of Nursing Science University of Eastern Finland Kuopio Finland

8. South‐Western Hospital District Turku Finland

Abstract

AbstractAimThe aim of this article is to describe and compare the nurse educator competences in four European countries using three different evaluators: nurse educators (n = 329), heads of a nursing subject (n = 60) and student nurses (n = 1058).DesignThe study was conducted as a comparative cross‐sectional survey in Finland, Malta, Slovakia and Spain between May 2021 and February 2022.MethodsThe data were collected with an online survey. The instrument used was a 20‐item Tool for Evaluation of Requirements of Nurse Teachers, utilizing a 5‐point Likert‐type scale. The data were analysed statistically and reported according to STROBE guidelines.ResultsNurse educators' competence evaluated positively in all the groups of evaluators, with a mean of >3.5. The self‐evaluation of nurse educators' competence was higher than the other evaluators' evaluations. Having a degree in nursing, having completed some pedagogical studies and longer work experience as a nurse educator had a positive association with higher self‐evaluated competence among nurse educators.ConclusionsNurse educator competence is at a good level in the selected European countries, but further studies are required to find the reasons behind the differences in evaluations.Public ContributionEach participating educational institution named a contact person who distributed the surveys to the participants and returned the study's metadata to the researchers.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

General Nursing

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