In order to adequately support the doctoral thesis entitled ”Development of professional and moral recognition of graduate nurses”, we did research into the development of the career of nursing professionals who graduated from college. This was the first phase of our research.
The results of this research made it possible for us to start a development programme
on teaching and methodology. Consequently, it was in the second phase that we started to
develop field practice for college students on primary health care and community nursing care introducing a mentor nurse further training programme, organising it on two occasions. The programme provided one-week, forty-hour further training for nurse mentors who in this way become involved in conducting regular/full-time students’ practice through family doctor practices. The establishment of the mentor nursing system in the primary care practicing places at the Faculty of Health Care was made possible by the colleagues working in primary health care and prepared for the task in the further training programme that we organised. The research study actually helped us develop a new network for conducting practice to support college students doing their practice in primary health care.
In the next second phase we also examined the opinion of health professionals
working in community care about the applicability of their knowledge in practice gained in graduate training and about possibilities for success. A determining element of the study was exploring the demands crucial to developing nursing and further training. I drew my conclusions from studying the circumstances of the professional development of those working in the field of home nursing care, with special regard to the results of the research done into the possibilities of developing nursing and further training and I drew up my recommendations worth considering in both the BSc and MSc two-cycle nurse training programmes or when it comes to organiasing professional further training. Similarly, all the teaching methods that may serve the purpose of teaching primary and community care in everyday practical training are summed up.