Evaluating the importance of nurse competencies
- Authors: Kaspruk L.I.1
-
Affiliations:
- Orenburg State Medical University
- Issue: Vol 23, No 2 (2024)
- Pages: 153-161
- Section: SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICAL PROFESSION
- URL: https://rjsocmed.com/1728-2810/article/view/634585
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/socm634585
- ID: 634585
Cite item
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In professional audit of nursing care quality, social research methods play a crucial role in developing the skills and expertise needed to establish expert criteria. These criteria are derived from a general set of practices. Considering that the selection of qualifying elements requires information on the scientific approach, it is reasonable to more precisely identify them in proportion to the originality of the expert role.
AIM: To assess the importance of competencies of nurses as illustrated by the Orenburg Region.
METHODS: The key performance criteria of healthcare providers are presented using the Delphi method. The study involved sociological and expert surveys of mid-level healthcare providers (n = 535), doctors (n = 80), heads of healthcare organizations (n = 10), and patients (n = 500). These surveys helped propose formal indicators to evaluate measures for creating innovative nursing training and retraining programs for nurses. Mathematical models of these programs were developed using factor, cluster, and discriminant analysis.
RESULTS: Social research of the regional nursing care sector have proposed a set of expert competencies for training and retraining of nurses.
CONCLUSION: Mathematical prototypes of healthcare provider training programs, created through social research in the regional nursing care sector, contribute to the development of an improvement algorithm. This algorithm enhances the content and quality of professional training, ensuring the provision of skilled and competitive professionals in the healthcare industry.
Keywords
Full Text

About the authors
Lyudmila I. Kaspruk
Orenburg State Medical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: kaspruk61@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2782-7916
SPIN-code: 2590-5911
MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), Professor
Russian Federation, OrenburgReferences
- Reshetnikov AV., Efimenko SA. Conducting medical and sociological monitoring. Moscow; 2007. EDN: QBMIRF (In Russ.)
- Reshetnikov AV. Medical and sociological monitoring: a guide. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2013. (In Russ.)
- Kaspruk LI, Belov IP, Kislovets OV. Training of management personnel for non-governmental medical organizations. Problems of sociology, hygiene, health care and history of medicine. 2012;(3):38–41. EDN: RBXTLD (In Russ.)
- The state of nursing in the world, 2020: Investing in education, jobs, and developing leaders. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. (In Russ.)
- Reshetnikov AV, Sobolev KE, editors. Medical and sociological monitoring. 2nd ed., revised and enlarged. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2022. (In Russ.)
- Bogdan IV, Katsaurova SYu, Chistyakova DP. Sociological study of the substantive aspects of the image of a nurse. News of higher educational institutions. Sociology. Economics. Politics. 2023;16(1):41–53. EDN: WGQGNI doi: 10.31660/1993-1824-2023-1-41-53 (In Russ.)
- Stelmakh AA. Prestige of the profession as one of the elements that form the coordinate system of the value attitude towards the profession. Problems of modern pedagogical education. 2018;(60-3):310–313. EDN: VKOKUH (In Russ.)
- Order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation dated July 31, 2020 No. 475n "On approval of the professional standard ’Nurse / Medical Brother’" [cited 2023 Dec 30]. Available from: https://www.garant.ru/products/ipo/prime/doc/74500092/ (In Russ.)
- Velikanova LP, Grishina EI. The role of nurses in the formation of the therapeutic environment. Medical sister. 2018;20(1):3–5. EDN: YPZGTB doi: 10.29296/25879979-2018-01-01 (In Russ.)
- Maksudova YuV, Efremova VV. What are they like - modern nurses? In: Proceedings of the III Forum with International Participation "Sociology of Health: Lessons of the Pandemic and Contours of the Future of Healthcare"; 23 Nov 2021; Moscow: State Budgetary Institution "Research Institute of Healthcare of the City of Moscow". P. 63. (In Russ.)
- Golikova acknowledged the shortage of doctors and nurses in the healthcare system. In: Moskovsky Komsomolets [Internet]. Moscow: MK.ru, 2021 [cited 2023 Dec 30]. Available from: https://www.mk.ru/social/health/2021/10/27/golikova-priznalanekhvatku-vrachey-i-medsester-v-sisteme-zdravookhraneniya.html (In Russ.)
Supplementary files
