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Identifying nurse practitioners' required case management competencies in health promotion practice in municipal public primary health care. A two‐stage modified Delphi study

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  • Virpi Maijala
  • Kerttu Tossavainen
  • Hannele Turunen

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Aims and objectives The aims of this study were to identify and reach consensus among municipal primary health care participants on nurse practitioners' (NPs') required case management competencies in health promotion practices in eastern Finland. Background The NP's role as a case manager of patients with chronic conditions has been found to have positive outcomes in health promotion, such as reduced hospital lengths of stay and readmission rates. However, the challenging work of health promotion requires NPs to have multidimensional competencies in health promotion, including communication, advocacy, assessment, planning, consultation and implementation. Design A two‐stage modified Delphi study. Methods Round 1 semi‐structured interviews were conducted among municipal primary health care participants (n = 42) in 11 health centres from April–July 2009, and the round 2 questionnaire survey was conducted in the same health centres in eastern Finland in January and March 2011. The questionnaire was answered by 64% of those surveyed (n = 56). Content analysis and descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. Results We identified a total of 18 required case management competencies for NPs' health promotion practices in municipal primary health care. In 17 of these competencies (such as knowledge, skills and ability to work independently in health promotion), a consensus was reached (51% or over). However, the need to be interested in municipal decision‐making (44·6%) did not reach consensus. Conclusion Consensus was clearly achieved for 17 competencies that NPs were required to have, and these indicated the knowledge or abilities of health promotion. Nevertheless, there was no agreement on the NPs' need to be interested in municipal decision‐making. Relevance to clinical practice NPs need a variety of case management skills and abilities to realise health promotion in municipal primary health care and they need to be supported by primary health care leaders to develop health promotion activities.

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  • Virpi Maijala & Kerttu Tossavainen & Hannele Turunen, 2015. "Identifying nurse practitioners' required case management competencies in health promotion practice in municipal public primary health care. A two‐stage modified Delphi study," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 24(17-18), pages 2554-2561, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jocnur:v:24:y:2015:i:17-18:p:2554-2561
    DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12855
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