KompetenzKompass
The development of nursing students' competencies during clinical internships is assessed in a standardised way using situational judgement tests (SJT) and introduced across different care settings in the Canton of Bern.
Factsheet
- Schools involved School of Health Professions
- Institute(s) Academic-Practice-Partnership Insel Gruppe/ BFH
- Funding organisation Others
- Duration (planned) 01.03.2026 - 31.08.2028
- Head of project Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schmitt
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Project staff
Gesche Gleichner
Rachel Strahm
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Körner
Prof. Dr. Irene König
Dr. Dr. Slavko Rogan
Prof. Dr. Sabine Hahn
Prof. Dr. Klazine Van der Horst -
Partner
Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern
Tilia Stiftung für Langzeitpflege
Concara / Spitex Bern
Universitäres Psychiatrisches Zentrum Bern AG - Keywords Education, studies, quality
Situation
Nursing students (HF, FH) complete internships in clinical practice. The content and formal requirements for these internships are defined. To measure the competencies gained there and to assess the quality of this training, a corresponding evaluation is being established. Training institutions thus gain more insight into students' competence development and can optimise their contribution to training. The approach complements the individual support and assessment provided by vocational and practical trainers, the qualitative assessment of training quality by those responsible for education, and the measures taken by educational institutions to assess training quality. It is based on the instrument "SkillCheck", which was developed and successfully tested in a pilot project by BFH and Insel Gruppe.
Course of action
The students' skills in the four dimensions of subject-specific, methodological, social, and personal competence should be assessed in a structured manner at the beginning and end of an internship. Situational judgment tests (SJT) in the form of multiple-choice answers was chosen for the measurement, i.e. a formative questionnaire is used. The SJTs consist of practical case vignettes in which several possible courses of action are listed. No answer is “wrong,” but the options differ in terms of their complexity. Candidates choose the option that best corresponds to their current level of training. The test is therefore based on a self-assessment that reveals the individual's level of competence. The 5-level model by Dreyfus & Dreyfus (1980) and the vocational education adaptation by Rauner (2002) are used for scaling. The first use of this system in a pilot project at the Bern University Hospital (Insel Gruppe) was successful. In this project, the evaluation of competence development is therefore extended, made more comprehensive and transferred to other settings of nursing (e.g., pediatrics, long-term care, psychiatry). The project is funded as part of the Swiss nursing initiative.
