Publications by authors named "Sari Pramila-Savukoski"
Aim: This study aimed to describe self-assessed clinical gerontological nursing competence and its associated factors among licensed practical nurses.
Design: A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted for the study.
Methods: Data were collected in Autumn 2023 from 394 licensed practical nurses working in healthcare services for older people in one well-being services county in Finland.
Aim: To synthesize evidence on healthcare professionals' experiences of competencies in mentoring undergraduate healthcare, social care and medical students during their interprofessional clinical practice.
Design: This review was conducted by the JBI methodology for systematic reviews of qualitative evidence.
Methods: Studies were included if they were based on the phenomenon of interest and used qualitative or mixed methods (qualitative share).
Aims: To identify healthcare professionals' digital health competence profiles and explore associated factors to digital health competence in healthcare settings.
Design: A cross-sectional study.
Methods: Data were collected from 817 healthcare professionals from nine organizations with an electronic questionnaire by using Digital Health Competence instrument (42 items) and Aspects Associated with Digital Health instrument (15 items) between 1st March and 31st July 2022.
Background: Educators in the social and health care and health sciences fields play a key role in developing the competencies of health professionals and experts. The increase in hybrid education in higher education provides flexible education but also causes additional stress for educators. In order to develop educators' competencies in hybrid teaching, it is necessary to understand educators' experiences of that.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Highly competent health care experts are needed for the development of the social and health care sectors. More knowledge is needed on the levels of generic competencies that health sciences experts possess, particularly in the context of complex decision-making.
Objectives: To describe self-evaluated generic competence of health sciences students and its associated factors.
Background: Given the importance of health professionals in society, investing in their education and developing educators' competence to provide high-quality education to health sciences students is important. Health sciences education is evolving and hybrid learning is becoming increasingly common. However, there is a lack of knowledge on how hybrid education influences the competence development of health sciences students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The competencies of educators in social and health care, and health sciences fields have been studied; however, studies related specifically to hybrid (synchronous face-to-face and online) teaching competence are scarce.
Aim: To develop and psychometrically test the hybrid education competence instrument for the purpose of self-assessment of hybrid education competence.
Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted to develop and psychometrically test the instrument.
Background: Health care experts need high levels of competence, yet there is little evidence on the influence of digital learning on health science students' competence development.
Objectives: This study aims to describe health sciences students' experiences of the development of their competence and the influences of digital learning upon their competence.
Design: A qualitative descriptive research.
Aims And Objectives: To examine registered nurses' self-evaluation of their competence in mentoring nursing students in clinical practice.
Background: Clinical mentors have significant roles and responsibility for nursing students' clinical learning. Moreover, the mentors' role is becoming increasingly important internationally, as the role of nurse teachers in mentoring students in clinical practice has declined.