Clinical trial NCT05597618: Empowerment Program for New Graduated Nurses
Official title: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Training Program Developed to Empower New Graduated Nurses
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Empowerment
Keywords: Education
Empowerment
Graduated
Nurses
Training
Lead sponsor: Koç University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-10-28
Enrollment: 68
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Sixty-eight participants were randomly selected from the list of newly graduated nurses from the hospital using a simple random numbers table. After obtaining consent from the participants and evaluating the inclusion criteria, 68 participants were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Using the block randomization method (randomizer.org), these nurses were assigned to the experimental and control groups by a research assistant in the institution where the researchers were not involved in the study work.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study aimed to develop a training program for the empowerment of newly graduated nurses and to evaluate the effectiveness of this program. The training program designed to empower newly graduated nurses is based on the theories of "structural empowerment" and "psychological empowerment." The training program consists of two parts: face-to-face theoretical training and online training. To evaluate the effectiveness of the training program to be developed for the empowerment of newly graduated nurses, the research was planned as a single-center, parallel-group randomized controlled study, following the Consolidated Reporting Trials Standards (CONSORT) guidelines. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Is there a difference between the structural empowerment perception levels of the experimental group nurses who received the empowerment training program and the control group nurses who went through the routine orientation program?
2. Is there a difference between the psychological empowerment perception levels of the experimental group nurses who received the empowerment training program and the control group nurses who went through the routine orientation program? The research population will be newly graduated nurses (12 months or less of experience) working at Koç University Hospital. Experimental and control groups are expected to apply questionnaires including the "Introductory Information Questionnaire, Empowerment Information Evaluation Questionnaire, Nursing Structural Empowerment Scale, and Psychological Empowerment Scale" as a pre-test. Nurses in the control and experimental groups will receive the routine practices of the institution. The training program developed in addition to the experimental group will be applied. Six months after the training, the experimental and control groups are expected to apply the questionnaires, including the Nursing Structural Empowerment Scale, the Psychological Empowerment Scale, and the Empowerment Information Evaluation Questionnaire as a post-test.

Detailed description: It is known that newly graduated nurses are influential in individual, institutional, and patient outcomes and encounter many problems. Most healthcare institutions do not implement a planned adaptation program for newly recruited nurses. These nurses try to adapt to the institution and the profession with a master-apprentice relationship. In some of them, a basic adaptation program limited to a specific period is implemented. However, there is no theory-based, innovative, easy-to-use training program and any mobile application to increase the qualifications of newly graduated nurses, who play an essential role in the delivery and quality of health services, to ensure corporate belonging, and to support and strengthen their professionalization and professional competence. In addition, there is no study on this subject. The mobile application study was planned as a randomized controlled study to evaluate the effectiveness of the training program for the empowerment of newly graduated nurses and the mobile application to be developed. In the creation of the content of the training program, descriptive and qualitative studies aiming at strengthening the situation assessment will be carried out. In the research, "Control and Experimental Group Introductory Information Questionnaire," "Status Evaluation Questionnaire for Empowerment," "Nursing Structural Empowerment Scale," "Psychological Empowerment Scale, "Semi-structured Interview Form for New Graduated Nurses," and "Information Evaluation for Empowerment." "Question Form" and "Education Evaluation Form" will be used. Gpower 3.1.9.6 by taking 90% power, 0.81 effect size, and first type error 0.05 of the study's sample. As a result of the power analysis made with the help of software, It was decided to have 68 people, 34 in the experimental group and 34 in the control group. Statistical evaluations of the research data will be made using SPSS 26.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Total working time in the profession is less than 12 months
* Having at least a bachelor's degree in nursing

Exclusion Criteria:

* Total working time in the profession is over 12 months
* Dismissal during the research process
* Having an education level below the undergraduate level

Primary outcomes:
measure: Nursing Structural Empowerment Scale
timeFrame: Change from Nursing Structural Empowerment Levels at 6 months
measure: Psychological Empowerment Scale
timeFrame: Change from Nursing Psychological Empowerment Levels at 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Empowerment Information Evaluation Questionnaire
timeFrame: Change from Empowerment Knowledge Level at 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: İstanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Koç University School of Nursing
Study officials:
affiliation: Koc University School of Nursing
name: Sevilay Şenol Çelik, MSN
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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