2025 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 1_77-1_85
The purpose of this study was to verify the effectiveness of a training course for mid-career public health nurses. The course had been modified to strengthen these nurses’ ability to clarify community health issues as well as to understand their growth and challenges.
Participants who agreed to cooperate in the research were included from among those who attended this training course in 2022. A post-training questionnaire was administered to the participants, whose statements were analyzed qualitatively. The differences in mean evaluation scores between pre- and post-training on the Comprehensive Career Development Scale for Public Health Nurses (2nd version) were determined.
There were 37 participants, of whom 78.4% indicated that they were able to make the project proposal, which included responses of “Generally.” Based on the participants’ descriptions, their willingness to improve their ability to objectively present and explain evidence had increased, as had their motivation as a mid-career public health nurse. The scale evaluation results also confirmed significant differences in the total score, subtotal scores for policy and organizational management and community health activities, and 9 out of the 26 items at the 5% level.
The training course was deemed to have affected the nurses’ acquisition of the abilities to analyze health issues, propose projects based on evidence, and establish their identity and grow as public health nurses.
