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A Study of Nursing Competence for Nursing Graduates Among Different Vocational Education Programs

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This cross-sectional study explored nursing students’ professional competency and examined the differences of nursing professional competence among three vocational education programs. Self-administered questionnaires were used to investigate nursing students’ professional competency including the ability to take care of patients, communication, teaching, management, research, and self/professional growth dimensions. Participants’ mean competency score was 3.50 ± 0.61 (total = 5 points). Professional competency significantly differed among students of different vocational education programs; continue-two-year-program students and four-year-program students were more competent than five-year-program students (F = 11.165, p < .001). Furthermore, there were significant differences in female students of different vocational education programs with respect to competency; continue-two-year-program students were more competent than five-year-program students (F = 11.599, p < .001). Professional competency significantly differed in terms of the length of nursing students’ vocational education. Evaluating nursing students’ competency might be useful as an indicator of nursing education outcomes.

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  1. Department of Nursing, Chung-Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yu-Ching Tu, Cheng-Chieh Tsai & Hsiu-Rong Cheng

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  1. Institute of Maritime Operations, University College of Southeast Norway, Borre, Norway

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  2. Safety Solutions, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland

    Anna-Maria Teperi

  3. Department of Production Management and Logistics, Faculty of Management and Production Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

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Tu, YC., Tsai, CC., Cheng, HR. (2019). A Study of Nursing Competence for Nursing Graduates Among Different Vocational Education Programs. In: Nazir, S., Teperi, AM., Polak-Sopińska, A. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 785. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93882-0_38

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