Publications by authors named "Anne Nikula"
Article Synopsis
- Vaccination is a key public health intervention, and health professionals with strong knowledge and positive attitudes toward it are more effective in providing vaccines, making it crucial for health science students to gain this knowledge during their education.
- The study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of health science students who took part in the EDUVAC Intensive Course, which utilized diverse teaching methods over five days.
- Results showed that students significantly improved their vaccination knowledge, with 93.5% agreeing they felt confident in their skills, indicating the course effectively contributed to their professional development.
The EDUVAC project aims to develop and implement a web-based course on educating vaccination competence among health sciences students. In the current study students' feedback and evaluation is assessed which guided the partners' efforts to improve the final course content and learning material that will be available for open access. After completing the web-based course, most of the students (N=103, 75.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The purpose of this study was to assess the vaccination competence of Finnish public health nurses.
Design And Sample: A survey design was used. Participants (n=405) were public health nurses working in health centers in Finland.
Vaccination competence of graduating public health nurse students and nurses.
Nurse Educ Today
November 2012
Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the vaccination competence of graduating public health nurse students (PHN students) compared with public health nurses (PHNs).
Methods: Structured instruments were developed for this study: a self-assessment (Visual Analogue Scale, VAS) of vaccination competence and a knowledge test. The data were collected through purposive sampling of graduating PHN students (n=129) from Finnish polytechnics representing the main geographical areas of Finland and PHNs (n=405), drawn from health centers in the same areas.
Background: Vaccination is a globally significant health prevention method implemented by health care professionals around the world. To date, however, there has been little research measuring vaccinators' vaccination competence.
Aim: This paper evaluates the vaccination competence of graduating Finnish public health nurse students in order to develop teaching in vaccinators' basic and continuing education.
Objective: Vaccinating is one of the most significant methods of health promotion in the world. The purpose of this study was to describe vaccination competence from the perspective of professionals, clients, and students.
Design: A cross-sectional interview study.