Academic tutoring - a quality improvement project

Background: At a specialist intensive care nursing education located at a University college in the middle of Sweden there was a strong drive among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing student ́s in their academic development as well as in their academic writing to improve the overall quality of the master thesis written at the University College. Design: In this study a quality improvement design, the Plan, DO, Study, Act (PDSA) cycle were applied. Setting: where a University College in the middle of Sweden and the participants were two graduating classes of specialist nursing students. The Result showed that quality improvement and students satisfaction in the master thesis writing course can be reached with minor changes in the pedagogical approach during the course not requiring new resources.