Projekti
ProInCa - Promoting the Innovation Capacity of Higher Education in Nursing during Health Services´ Transition
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Projektin tulokset
The project
'Promoting the Innovation Capacity of Higher Education in Nursing during Health
Services' Transition' ProInCa was co-funded by the ERASMUS+ KA2 Capacity Building in the
Field of Higher Education programme between 14 October 2017 and 31 January
2021. The wider objective of the project was to develop the sustainable
innovation capacity of Kazakhstan's Medical Universities for the modernization
of nursing.
The ProInCa project consortium consisted of four European and five
Kazakhstani higher educational institutions, namely JAMK and LAB Universities
of Applied Sciences, Finland; Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen
(Hanze), Netherlands; Angela Boškin Faculty of Health Care (ABFHC), Slovenia;
Astana Medical University (AMU), Karaganda Medical University (KMU), Nazarbayev
University (NuSOM), Semey Medical University (SMU), and West Kazakhstan Medical
University named after Marat Ospanov (WKMU), Kazakhstan. The project also had
13 official associated partners, including Astana, Turkestan multidisciplinary,
and West Kazakhstan higher medical colleges, Temirtau and Ekibastuz medical
colleges, four hospitals, and the national association of nurses 'Paryz''. The
project was coordinated by JAMK and supported by the Ministry of Education and
Science and the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan. A
description of the consortium and all the project team members are listed on the
project website.
To achieve the
main objective of the project, the following four specific aims were recognized
in the project plan:
- Development of mechanisms for collaboration and
knowledge sharing between academic national and international nursing
community and society; - Learning from best practices on implementing
evidence-based nursing in nursing research, education and practice to
promote the efficiency and quality of health; - Strengthening higher education institutes' role in
building evidence-based nursing research activities in health services to
promote quality and safety of health care system; - Promoting the capacity and system of nursing
leadership and management in health care transition to improve the quality
of health care system.
The main results of the ProInCa project
In the framework of the healthcare reform
in Kazakhstan, the ProInCa project played an active role in the implementation
of international best practices in the field of nursing and nursing education.
Within the ProInCa project:
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The Center
of Nursing Excellence (CNE) was created with five regional centers. The CNE has
an online platform at www.nursekz.com
which brings together all stakeholders in nursing:
medical universities and colleges, hospitals and clinics, national and regional
associations of nurses, teachers, researchers, practicing nurses, managers,
etc. This platform comprises all the needed information for nursing
specialists: clinical protocols and guidelines, methodological recommendations,
training materials, statistics, information about research projects, a database
of national experts, contacts, useful links, etc. It also contains a blog for nursing leaders
and a forum for exchanging opinions and ideas.
development of CNE, for example
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Educational programs for bachelor's degree in
such courses as 'Basics of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice' and
'Evidence-Based Nursing Practice' as well as for master's degree in
the course 'Implementation of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice' were
created. Teaching materials in Kazakh, Russian, and English are freely
available on the CNE website at https://course.nursekz.com/.
Several reports were prepared to support
the development of Evidence-based nursing:
- Report
on Gap Analysis
- Report
on the development of national educational materials
- Kassym L. reported the 3-day
workshop in
'Evidence-based nursing – introducing best practices' in the ProInCa Blog Recommendations
on enhancing evidence-based nursing for the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan
- The book EVIDENCE-BASED
PRACTICE -MOVING FORWARD TO IMPLEMENTATION IN NURSING by Bahun et al (eds),
2021 containing articles in three languages (Kazakh, Russian, and English) summarizes
the development and status of evidence-based nursing in Kazakhstan.
- Methodological
recommendations for medical universities on nursing research infrastructure and prioritized
focus areas for nursing research have been
developed with the purpose of creating new research programs in nursing.
- Four joint
international research projects on nursing were designed.
- Educational
modules for masters' degree courses 'Research projects and development projects
in nursing' and 'Methodology of qualitative and quantitative research in
nursing' were developed. Instructions on how to apply these in the nursing
research courses in the applied and academic bachelor's degrees education were
provided. Teaching materials in Kazakh, Russian and English are freely
available on the CNE website at https://course.nursekz.com/
- The report
of recommended national working programs for nursing research disciplines describes the development process.
- In the report 'Present
health care leaders' leadership and management competencies, and structural
system changes needed in nursing reform in Kazakhstan' Päivi Huotari analyzed
the situation in 2018.
- Teaching
and learning materials for the capacity building of nursing leaders were
developed under four themes: Setting direction, Managing services and driving
results, Professionalism and ethics, and Leading people and teams. Materials in
Russian and English are freely available on the CNE website at https://course.nursekz.com/
- In addition, a training
programme for a 54-hour Master Class 'Modernization of Nursing Leadership'
was created to support the use of the training materials.
- Report
on recommendations for the medical universities
for needed training to support the structural changes and competence
development of chief and senior nurses was written.
- The
Association of Nursing Leaders of Medical Organizations of the Republic of
Kazakhstan is ready to be registered. In the CNE Blog this has been widely
supported. https://nursekz.com/en/blog-for-nursing-leadership-2/
- A pool of
national academic experts in the areas of evidence-based nursing, nursing
research, and nursing leadership and management was prepared and more than 500
nurses and nurse students from all regions of the country participated in
trainings of ProInCa or used the materials in their studies and thus improved
their professional capacity.
- 153 participants attended the
ProInCa Mid-conference in Nur-Sultan in May 2019. The presentations covered all the areas of the
project http://proinca-nursing.kz/conference-2019/
- 288 participants attended the
Final Conference 'Innovations in Nursing Education, Research, Leadership
and Clinical Practice' that was held online during December 10-11, 2020.
All oral and poster presentations and the resolution can be found on the
ProInCa website.
- New Erasmus+ CBHE project 'Accelerating
Master and PhD level nursing education development in the higher education
system in Kazakhstan – AccelEd' was initiated to
continue the work of developing nursing education in Kazakhstan.
Impact of the project
At individual level:
- improved practical and
theoretical skills and professional prospects;
- increased collaboration between
the higher education institutions and nursing practice by engaging nurses in
project activities and sharing best practices in multidisciplinary teams.
On the world of work:
- established personal
professional contacts between representatives of educational and healthcare
organizations as well as professional associations from different regions of
Kazakhstan;
-
gained skills in conducting
research projects in nursing as well as knowledge of the leadership and
management system by nurses;
-
establishment of direct
communications between the Association of Nurses of Kazakhstan
'Paryz' and the International Council of Nurses (ICN).
On the level of nursing education
implementation:
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new methods (Moodle, PBL, CBL,
Blended learning) in teaching nursing at the applied bachelor, academic
bachelor, and master levels;
-
developed modules (leadership,
qualitative research, development projects in nursing, evidence-based nursing
practice) in the new educational programs.
On the university level:
- restructuring of medical
universities' faculties, infrastructure, and staff;
-
significant improvement of the
research infrastructure.
At the structural level:
prestige of nursing as an independent profession;
- proposals from the ProInCa
project team were included in the Action Plan of the Ministry of Healthcare of
Kazakhstan for the implementation of the main directions of development of
nursing in Kazakhstan for 2020-2025;
- ProInCa project also supported
the recognition of nursing as a science and the establishment of the state
educational standard in 2020 that contains the full Lifelong Learning continuum
for nurses up to level 8 (doctoral education) in the European Qualification
Framework;
- the national priority areas for
research in nursing have been acknowledged.
=> The Established Center of Nursing Excellence
(CNE) as the main achievement of the project enables the sustainability of all
its results.
Final results updated on 16 April 2021