Nursing Students Capacity Emerging during

Abstract

Objective:To determine nursing student capacity emerging during health promotion leadership training.Method: In this participatory action research, subjects were 60 2nd and 3rd year nursing students from the Police Nursing College voluntarily joining the training.During the 3 plan-act-observe-reflect cycles, 3 groups of 20 students each, with a faculty member as a counselor, worked as a team to create health promotion program (1 program per team) for a nearby community. Data were collected by means of observation, tape recording and SWOT analysis, between March 2009 and July 2010. Content analysis and theme setting was conducted using Atlast/tiTM program to determine capacity developing components which were later compared with Pender’s theory of health promotion and Bjaras’s concept of capacity development. A spider-web mapping technique was used to construct the resulting model.Results: Four components of capacity development to be health promotion leader were found; namely 1) teamwork capacity, 2) teaching health promotion skill, 3) being voluntary to health promotion and 4) knowledge, attitude and practice in health behavior. This model was supported by exogenous factors including supports from advisor, academic institute, and relating organization, and community cooperation. Conclusion:A 4-main components model of capacity development in nursing students was revealed during health promotion leadership training. Development of nursing student’s capacity to lead the future health promotion campaign should be encouraged.Keywords:capacity development, health promotion, leadership, nursing student