Health promotion competence in nurses and occupational therapists

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Abstract
This paper describes research commissioned by NHS Executive to assess the utility of occupational standards as benchmarks to gauge the effectiveness of pre-registration clinical training in health promotion. Graduates and diplomates from two pre-clinical programmes (a BSc in Occupational Therapy and a Diploma of Higher Education in Nursing Studies) assessed themselves against occupational standards for health promotion. Data indicated areas of strength, but also some gaps, in both knowledge and experience gained prior to entering the workforce and indicated that the standards could be helpful in informing the development of curricula to meet changing needs. The data revealed that, while there were difficulties in understanding some sections of the occupational standards, participants in general felt that they would be useful as indicators of what should be achieved in pre-registration education and training.