Evaluating the importance of nurse competencies

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.