Trauma nursing practitioners’ preferences for training for trauma specialist nurses based on job competencies

Abstract

Introduction

Optimizing trauma nurse training is of great significance in enhancing nurses’ professional skills, strengthening their emergency response capabilities, facilitating career development, and improving patient rescue success rates. This study aims to investigate the preferences of trauma nursing practitioners for trauma specialist nurse training based on job competency.

Methods

631 Trauma nursing practitioners from 20 hospitals in Guizhou Province, China, participated in this cross-sectional study. The instruments used were the General Information Questionnaire and the Self-designed training preference questionnaire for trauma specialist nurses based on job competency theory. Questionnaires are distributed and collected through online questionnaires.

Results

93.03% of trauma nursing practitioners expressed their willingness to participate in trauma nurse specialist training, of which 80.35% had high-level training needs. 78.92% of trauma nursing practitioners expressed their hope to receive trauma nurse specialist training through operational demonstration training, online live broadcasts, and scenario simulation drills. Among the various dimensions of job competency, the highest demand was for professional knowledge, skills, and ability.

Conclusion

Trauma nursing practitioners highly value and recognize the professional training of trauma nurse specialists and prefer training methods that are highly practical and can directly improve clinical skills. The research results provide an important basis for further optimizing the training program for trauma nurse specialists.