Kven kan bli sjukepleiarar? Analysar av tvilsmeldingar og studentperspektiv frå norske sjukepleiarutdanningar

Project summary

Suitability assessment is a professional and ethical evaluation of whether a student possesses the necessary prerequisites to practise the profession in a responsible manner. This project examines reports of doubt regarding suitability in Norwegian nursing education programmes over the past ten years. The aim is to map and analyse these reports to understand their characteristics and to explore how students experience suitability and the areas identified as particularly critical through the mapping of doubt reports. The project will generate new knowledge about what characterises reports of doubt concerning suitability and how students relate to this during their educational journey. This will provide valuable insight into understanding the challenges and improving the quality of nursing education to ensure that future nurses are well suited for the profession. Privacy information The project processes anonymised reports of doubt regarding suitability concerning nursing students, collected from the 13 Norwegian higher education institutions offering nursing education. The reports may contain information about behaviour, communication and incidents in clinical practice, and may indirectly identify students despite anonymisation. Health data and information about ethnicity may also be present. The processing is based on GDPR Article 6(1)(e) and 9(2)(j), cf. the Norwegian Personal Data Act §§ 8 and 9, as research in the public interest. The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research has granted an exemption from the duty of confidentiality pursuant to the Public Administration Act § 13d (ref.: 26/1004-). The project has been assessed by Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (ref.: 551197). Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) is the data controller. Data are stored on HVL's secure research server and will be deleted at the end of the project, no later than 31.12.2031. Access is restricted to project members at HVL. In principle, registered individuals have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction and objection under GDPR Articles 15–18 and 21. As the material is anonymised before the project gains access, individual notification is not possible pursuant to GDPR Article 14(5)(b). Enquiries may be directed to the project leader Cathrine Selsvold Natterøy at HVL or to HVL's Data Protection Officer.