Improvement of Iranian nurses' competence through professional portfolio: A quasi‐experimental study

Masoud Bahreini, Marzieh Moattari, Shohreh Shahamat, Sina Dobaradaran and Mariam Ravanipour

Nursing & Health Sciences, 2013, vol. 15, issue 1, 51-57

Abstract: The aim of the study was to determine the effect of a portfolio‐based professional development program on nurses' competence in a university hospital in Iran. A pre‐test/post‐test, controlled, quasi‐experimental design was used. From the university hospital's 18 general wards, four wards were randomly selected. Two wards were randomly allocated as the experimental group (35 subjects) and two wards as the control group (38 subjects). Nurses in the experimental group participated in a 12‐month portfolio‐based professional development program and nurses in the control group participated in the routine professional development programs of their wards. The data were collected by the Nurse Competence Scale and were analyzed using descriptive statistics and independent and paired t‐tests. After intervention, the average nurses' competence in the experimental group increased significantly (P

Date: 2013
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