Three paths to a Swedish nursing license: Two for internationally educated nurses and one for regular nursing students – A cross-sectional study of self-rated professional competence, self-efficacy, and thriving

Högskolan i Gävle, Med-Vårdvetenskap Göteborgs universitet Uppsala universitet Elsevier 2022

Högstedt, Denice
Jansson, I.
Eriksson, Elisabet
Engström, Maria

Background Bridging programs are offered to support migrated nurses, but in some countries, nurses can also choose to validate their nursing competence. Thus far, little is known about how migrated nurses estimate their competence when they are about to enter working life in a new country and how this differs from regular nursing students. Objective To compare two groups of internationally educated nurses' – those from bridging programs and those who chose validation – and one group of regular nursing students' self-rated professional competence when they are about to start working as registered nurses. The hypotheses were: 1) internationally educated nurses rate their competence higher than regular nursing students and 2) those from bridging programs rate their competence higher than those who chose validation. In addition, the aim was to compare the groups' self-efficacy and thriving. Design A cross-sectional, comparative design. Settings Five universities in Sweden. Participants Nurses educated in non-European countries from a bridging program (n = 128, response rate 79.0 %) or validation process (n = 61, response rate 59.2 %) and students graduating from the regular nursing program (n = 213, response rate 68.3 %). Methods Data were collected with coded questionnaires (paper or online) between 2019 and 2021 and analyzed using non-parametric tests, e.g., Kruskal-Wallis. Results Both groups of internationally educated nurses had higher median scores on total nursing competence (both groups p < 0.001), general self-efficacy (bridging programs p < 0.001, validation p = 0.020), and total thriving (bridging programs p < 0.001, validation p = 0.012) than regular nursing students did. However, comparing the groups of internationally educated nurses showed no significant differences. Conclusion Internationally educated nurses rated their competence high but with differences within the groups for different competence areas. More research is needed to investigate w

Credentialing; Education nursing; Licensure nursing; Nurses international; Professional competence; Self-efficacy; Thriving; Health Sciences; Hälsovetenskaper; Article in journal; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; text

10.1016.j.nedt.2022.105595

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