Galit Neufeld-Kroszynski, Keren Michael, Orit Karnieli-Miller
Associations between medical students' stress, academic burnout and moral courage efficacy
BMC psychology
health care systems nordic countries worldwide pressure due increased longevity shortage nurses providing nurses high level education advanced practice nursing great importance ensure effective safe highquality care aim study investigate selfreported competence using nurse professional competence scale shortform first time among masters students advanced practice nursing nordic countries relate findings age work obligations childrearing responsibilities level education clinical nursing experience multicentre crosssectional design used study conducted five universities denmark finland norway nurse professional competence scale shortform consisting six competence areas used maximum score 7 per item analysis single items transformed scale 143 100 analysing competence areas higher score equals higher selfreported competence descriptive comparative statistics used analyse data highest mean score found competence area valuebased nursing care students living homedwelling children 18 years reported significantly higher competence nursing care students 33 years reported significantly higher competence nursing care valuebased nursing care significant differences found students working working alongside studies students without nursingrelated education students long short experience nurses findings study might help develop curricula advanced practice nursing masters programmes ensure highquality nursing sustainable health care future future highquality masters programmes might benefit systematic collaboration nordic higher education institutions also sweden planning masters programme higher age children home working studying considered causes concern