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Educación Médica Superior
Print version ISSN 0864-2141On-line version ISSN 1561-2902
Abstract
MORENO MARTIN, Gustavo; MARTINEZ GARCIA, Diana Nancy; MORENO MARTIN, Mónica and FERNANDEZ NIETO, Miriam Ivonne. Nursing major graduates and their professional profiles. Educ Med Super [online]. 2019, vol.33, n.1, e1463. Epub Mar 01, 2019. ISSN 0864-2141.
Introduction:
Through follow-up studies of graduates, the incompatibilities and inadequacies of available competences can be obtained in association with the competences necessary to concretize the corporate strategy.
Objective:
To evaluate the professional profile and the training needs of the Nursing major graduates from Technical University of Ambato.
Methods:
An observational, descriptive and retrospective study was carried out as part of the follow-up of the Nursing major graduates. The population was represented by the 698 graduates from January 2002 to December 2017. No sample was selected.
Results:
There was a non-significant trend towards an increase in the number of graduates (r=0.024; 95% confidence interval, 32.81 to 54.94). The majority of the graduates worked in the area of public health (44.4%) and as public employees (73.7%). They mentioned that the main subjects in their training were Medical-Surgical Nursing (35.4%) and Gynecological-Obstetric Nursing (24.6%), while demanding more frequent postgraduate training in the emergency and family healthcare areas.
Conclusions:
Despite the discreet increase in the number of graduates, the Nursing major of Technical University of Ambato has responded to its social assignment as to the training of human talent, a personal that has significantly worked in the public sector.
Keywords : nursing; health jobs; postgraduate Nursing education.