2013 Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 21-30
〔Aim〕I consider whether there is a difference in nursing competency between students of the new curriculum introduced in 2009 and graduates of the curriculum prior to this revision.
〔Method〕A self-assessment questionnaire was used, and the subjects for this study were 83 students of the new curriculum and 209 graduates of the old curriculum. The questionnaire content was designed to gather the attributes of the target subjects and the scores of the fifty-two nursing competency criteria, and to analyse and compare the subjects on the basis of the old and new curricula.
〔Results and Conclusions〕The comparative results indicated a significant difference between the scores of the new curriculum students and the old curriculum graduates. In all seven items out of fifty-two criteria that composed the nursing competency, the students of the new curriculum scored higher than the graduates of the old curriculum. The content of the items reflected the points revised in the curriculum. Thus, the results show that the new curriculum had a definite effect in enhancing and cultivating nursing competency.
