Supporting New Graduated Nurse's Professional Competence, a Theoretical Model for Optimal Orientation

NCT04474769 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: PreceptOR2014
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 114
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

This research is a longitudinal quasi-experimental intervention study which aim is to study education intervention's impact on new graduate nurses' orientation period, professional competence and organizational commitment. The study hypothesis is that new graduate nurses who start to work at the nursing unit which belong to the intervention group are more satisfied on received orientation, their professional competence develops faster and they are more committed to the organization than new graduate nurses at the units of the control group.

Conditions

Competence; Nurse's Role

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Professional competence, the change of the professional competence is being assessed

  Nurse Competence Scale, min 0 to max 100. Higher scores means better outcome

  Baseline

• Professional competence, the change of the professional competence is being assessed

  Nurse Competence Scale, min 0 to max 100. Higher scores means better outcome

  Three months

• Professional competence, the change of the professional competence is being assessed

  Nurse Competence Scale, min 0 to max 100. Higher scores means better outcome

  Nine months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Precepting experience

  Three months

• Organizational commitment

  Nine months

Study Arms (2)

Educational intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention group's preceptors is given an eight-hour education entity about orientation and preceptorship. The objective is to enhance preceptors' knowledge and skills about the orientation and to give preceptors means to precept new graduate nurses better.

Other: Educational intervention for preceptors

No intervention

NO INTERVENTION

Nursing units at the control group continue to precept as before.

Interventions

Educational intervention for preceptors OTHER

Educational intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 60 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Less than one year from the graduation, willingness to participate

You may not qualify if:

• Already a registered nurse, more than one year from the graduation

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Tampere University: lead

Study Officials

• Eija Paavilainen, PhD

  Tampere University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Pricipal Investigator

Model Details: Longitudinal quasi-experimental intervention study

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 28, 2020
• First Posted: July 17, 2020
• Study Start: October 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: November 30, 2017
• Study Completion: November 30, 2017
• Last Updated: July 17, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share