The Improving quality in clinical placement studies in nursing homes (QUALinCLINstud) project addresses the urgent need for improved quality and efficiency in clinical supervision and assessment of student nurses in nursing home placements. This will be approached through a novel, collaborative, co-productive, social innovation and learning process between the nurse education system, student nurses and nursing homes.
Kristin Akerjordet
Research Council Norway (RCN) – HELSEVEL
1 June 2018 – 30. June 2023
14 mill NOK (RCN)
Overall, the project holds great potential for value creation and will contribute to expand the current knowledge base concerning supervision and assessment practices in nursing home placements.
The study is structured across four sequential work packages. In 2021, a digital educational intervention (DigiVIS) targeted to enhance nurse mentor’s supervision and assessment competence was developed and pilot tested in one of the case study settings. Following the pilot study, a comprehensive development process of an interactive web-based program targeting all stakeholder groups (student nurses, nurse educators, and nurse mentors) was initiated and resulted in the development of the interactive digital educational resource (digiQUALinPRAX). Workshops and dialogue meetings have been conducted as the main co-creation activity throughout the developmental process. Both processes were performed in close collaboration with NettOp, the department for digital development at the University of Stavanger (UiS). Throughout 2022-2023 digiQUALinPRAX will be tested and evaluated.
In 2021, a web-based survey was performed at Campus UiS, University of Southern Norway (USN) and the University of Agder (UiA) targeting all the first year Bachelor Nursing students in Nursing Home Placements to see how they perceive their learning environments. Unfortunately, the response rate was too low for statistical analysis. An adjusted version of this web-based survey was therefore performed alongside the testing of the digiQUALinPRAX in 2022.
Overall, the project holds great potential for value creation and will contribute to expand the current knowledge base concerning supervision and assessment practices in nursing home placements. The project aims to identify improvement measures and document the utility value of user involvement in developmental processes and the value of an interactive digital educational resource applied in clinical placements, which are currently lacking in Norway.
The PhD candidates in the research project, Christina Frøiland (UiS) and Ingrid Espegren Dalsmo (UiA) including Project Manager/Professor Kristin Akerjordet participated at the 8th. International Nurse Education Conference in Barcelona, Spain (2022) (NETNEP) - From Education to Impact: Transforming nursing and midwifery education both orally and with poster presentations.
Selected publications from 2022:
- Dalsmo, Ingrid Espegren; Brodtkorb, Kari; Laugaland, Kristin Alstveit; Slettebø, Åshild; Ekra, Else Mari Ruberg (2022). Learning in nursing home placement: A phenomenological study of student nurses’ lived experience. Journal of Clinical Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16262
- Aase, Ingunn; Akerjordet, Kristin; Crookes, Patrick A.; Frøiland, Christina Tølbøl; Laugaland, Kristin Alstveit (2022). Exploring the formal assessment discussions in clinical nursing education: An observational study. BMC Nursing, Vol 21(1) p. 1-10
SHARE RESEARCHERS
- Professor Kristin Akerjordet (Project manager)
- Associate professor Kristin Laugaland
- Professor Emerita Ingunn Aase
- Professor Anne Marie Lunde Husebø
PHD CANDIDATES
- Christina Tølbøl Frøiland, University of Stavanger
- Ingrid Espegren Dalsmo, University of Agder
PARTNERS
- Professor Marianne Gonzalez, University of South-Eastern Norway
- Postdoctoral candidate Monika Ravik, University of South-Eastern Norway
- Associate professor Else Mari Ekra, University of Agder
CO - RESEARCHERS
- Son Than Tran – Stavanger Municipality
ADVISORY BOARD
- Professor Brenden McCormak, Queen Margareth University, UK
- Professor Annica Khilgren, University of Orebro, Sweden
- Professor Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Roskilde University, Denmark
- Professor Patrick Crookes, University of Canberra, Australia
- Professor Stephen Billett, Griffith University, Australia