Introduction:

in our country, technical nursing teaching begins at the end of the XIX century, based on different academical plans, adjusted to professional and technician profiles.

Objective:

an Infirmary Foundations program for technicians, in correspondence to their profiles.

Methods:

an evaluation study based on quality and quantity, was carried out. Difficulties for the Infirmary Foundations program were diagnosed; at the medical sciences branch "Aridez Estévez Sánchez" from Holguín. Universe was 9 professors, 163 first year students and 10 Infirmary specialists conformed the key group of informants.

Results:

to allow the feasibility of the elaborated program. Very comprehensive contents in different forms of teaching, and how organization affects student's formation. Modification proposals made a logical, affordable and necessary sense in the technical male nurses’ formation. According to educational activities structure in the practical theoretical lessons, laboratory practice and new contents’ development, were also inadequate in these forms of teaching.

Conclusions:

difficulties of Infirmary Foundations program were diagnosed. Improvement proposals increased the total time of the program and allowed organization, as well as teaching, according to objectives and contents. Clinical Surgical Infirmary subjects ‘teaching methods were excluded.

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