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Revista Cubana de Medicina

On-line version ISSN 1561-302X

Abstract

RODRIGUEZ PUGA, Rolando; DUENAS RODRIGUEZ, Yasnier; GOMEZ CARDOSO, Ángel Luis  and  NUNEZ RODRIGUEZ, Olga Lidia. Limiting Factors in Nurse Postgraduate Academic Training. Rev. Cuban de Med [online]. 2023, vol.62, n.4  Epub Dec 01, 2023. ISSN 1561-302X.

Introduction:

Postgraduate academic training is a continuous process of incorporating knowledge, which can have effects due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

Objective:

To determine the limiting factors of nurse postgraduate academic training.

Methods:

A descriptive observational study was carried out at Camagüey Pediatric Hospital during the 2022 first semester. The universe consisted of 275 nurses and the sample was made up of 272, once the selection criteria were applied. The variables were studied age group, limiting factors of professional improvement related to the physical, psychological, social and family, and economic environments. The Social Science Statistical Package was used to process the data and they were expressed in absolute values and percentages.

Results:

The age group of 20-29 years predominated in the study (29.0%), with inadequate working conditions (33.8%), presence of stress (61.8%), which added to the lack of availability of development or promotion (55.5%), as well as the low level of remuneration as the main limiting factor related to the economic sphere (97.4%).

Conclusions:

The factors that limited nurse postgraduate academic training include those related to the physical, psychological, social, work and economic environment, among which are inadequate working conditions, stress and low remuneration.

Keywords : nurses; overcoming; postgraduate academic training; limiting factors.

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