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Journal of Nursing & Care | ISSN: 2167-1168 | Volume 7
3
rd
World Congress on
May 16-17, 2018 | Montreal, Canada
Nursing Education, Practice & Research
Assessment of new graduate nurses based onVietnam's nursing competency standards:Acooperation
program between Japan and Vietnam
Phan Thi Dung
1
, Shio
2
, Ikarashi Megumi
2
, Desilva Tomomi
2
, Nguyen Minh Loi
3
1
Viet Duc University Hospital, Vietnam
2
Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan
3
Ministry of Health, Vietnam
Objective:
The objective of this study was to assess newly graduated nurses based on the Vietnamese basic nursing competency
standards.
Methods:
This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in September 2015 and December 2016 with the participation of
590 nurses at 43 health facilities in Hanoi city and four provinces in Vietnam. Those nurses completed clinical practice courses
at the selected health facilities after graduating from universities, colleges and medical secondary schools. A self-administered
questionnaire was designed on the basis of the Vietnamese nursing competency standards and used for data collection. The
study assessed three groups of indicators, including nurses’ demographic characteristics (independent variables), competencies
(dependent variables) and the associations between competencies and some factors. Data were entered into EpiData ver. 3.1
and then analyzed with SPSS ver. 17.0.
Results:
Newly graduate nurses had a mean practice score of 58 points. Only 0.3% of the surveyed nurses met the Vietnamese
basic nursing competency standards, 0.8% met the competency standards of care in nursing, 1.7% met the competency
standards of occupational management and development, and 37.1% met the competency standards of legal professional
practice and ethics.
Conclusion:
Newly graduate nurses meeting the Vietnamese basic nursing competency standards accounted for a minimal
proportion.
Biography
Phan Thi Dung has been working at Viet Duc University Hospital for 36 years, 27 years’ experience in Operating Theater Nurse and 10 years of ORs Head Nurse
and 8 years of Hospital Chief Nurse. Currently, she is working at Education and Training Center. She has completed her Master of Hospital Management program
in 2012 and PhD of Public Health in 2016 at Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH). She has published several articles in well-reputed journals such
as Journal
of Vietnamese Studies and Nurse Education Today Journal, The Thai Journal of Surgical, British Journal of Nursing
and contributed presentations in: scientific con-
ference in Barcelona, Spain in 2011; Nursing conference on wound care in 2014 in UK; World Congress on Nursing in 2015, Dubai, UAE and American Professional
Wound Care Association 2016 Conference in Philadelphia, US.
phanthidzungvd@gmail.comPhan Thi Dung et al., J Nurs Care 2018, Volume 7
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C3-070