. Effat Sheikhbahaeddinzadeh; . Tahereh Ashktorab; . Abbas Ebadi
Volume 12, Issue 9 , October 2022, , Pages 1-7
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Technical skills result in the patient’s safety. Psychiatric nurses need to learn andapply them to provide effective and secure cares. This study explains the technical ...
Read More
BACKGROUND: Technical skills result in the patient’s safety. Psychiatric nurses need to learn andapply them to provide effective and secure cares. This study explains the technical competencyrequired for postgraduate psychiatric nursing students.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This conventional qualitative content analysis study is part of a largerstudy on the clinical competency of postgraduate psychiatric nursing students performed in Iran in2020. A qualitative study was conducted at universities holding master’s degree courses in psychiatricnursing. Participants were instructors and postgraduate psychiatric nursing students, psychiatricnurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists selected by purposeful sampling method. Sampling continueduntil data saturation was achieved. Data were collected through a semi‑structured individual interviewand were analyzed by conventional qualitative content analysis.RESULTS: The “technical competency” has two subcategories of “specialized knowledge” (includinggeneral nursing knowledge, psychiatric nursing knowledge, and basic knowledge of psychology)and “application of knowledge in practice” (including clinical experience, skills of psychiatric nursinginterventions, educational skills, and research and evidence‑based practice skills).CONCLUSION: The psychiatric nursing student learns and operates knowledge of psychiatricnursing, psychology, education, and research, besides improving their knowledge of general nursing.
