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URBINA LAZA, Omayda  e  OTERO CEBALLOS, Marta. Tendencias actuales en las competencias específicas de Enfermería. Educ Med Super [online]. 2003, vol.17, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0864-2141.

Those aspects connected with the antecedents and the present situation of the evaluation of the professional competence and performance in the health sphere, its upsurge, and the participation of the Economic Organization for Development and of the Interantional Labor Organization and its Interamerican Center of Research and Documentation on Professional Training were reviewed. The strategy of the Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba in this field that recognizes the competences as one of the guidelines to guarantee the quality in the health services and the improvement and upgrading of human resources, was analized. The work done by the nursing staff in the evaluation of the competences, its prospects and what has been done up to now are dealt with in this paper.

Palavras-chave : PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; APTITUDE; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ANALYSIS OF JOB PERFORMANCE.