Decentralized nursing education in Northern Norway: a basis for continuing education to meet competence needs in rural Arctic healthcare services

Figures & data

Table I. Continuing education programmes in Norway

Study programmes	Study points ECTS
Hospital specializations	90
Master's programmes	180
Geriatric nursing	90
Public health care	90
Midwifery	90
Nursing management	90
Mental health care	90
Clinical specializations	15–60

Fig. 1.  Categories of continuing education among RNs educated via decentralized nursing education.

Table II. Frequency of continuing education among RNs from a Norwegian decentralized nursing programme (N = 233)

	Female		Male		Total
	Frequency	%	Frequency	%	Frequency	%
Continuing education	126	58	5	33	131	56
No continuing education	88	40	10	67	98	42
Missing	4	2	0	0	4	2
Total	218	100	15	100	233	100

Table III. Distribution of the participants with respect to study organization (N=131)

	Frequency	%
Part time	62	47
Decentralized	29	22
Full time	19	15
Part time and full time	7	5
Part time and decentralized	3	2
Other	1	1
Missing	10	8
Total	131	100

Table IV. Distribution of continuing education among participants in management positions (N = 47)

Continuing education	Frequency	%
Continuing education, clinical disciplines	24	51
Continuing education, management	10	21
Unspecified continuing education	1	2
No continuing education	12	26
Total	47	100