Introduction:

formative research is of great importance from pre-professional training to achieve competent professionals in the field of work and research, and it has its implication in the educational action to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, with the consequent accompaniment to the students in effective tutorial processes during their academic training as nursing professionals.

Objective:

to describe the current state of development and promotion of student scientific activity.

Methods:

an observational, descriptive study was carried out between the months of August 2018 and August 2019, in which a population of 704 students working in Nursing was worked on, a semi-structured questionnaire was prepared and a group interview was applied to 32 Nursing professors from the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador, who taught their subjects in the different Units of Basic Curricular Organization (UOC) Basic, Pre-professional and Degree in the current redesigned mesh.

Results:

it was found that the motivation for the realization of scientific works by the professors of the career is still in the initial state of (67.24%) and 26.55% of the students respond that they are progressively Upon receiving specific instruction from their teachers, with a statistical significance (p <0.05) there is still a lack of systematic planning of actions and strategies.

Conclusions:

inadequacies were identified in the systematics for the direction of students for the realization of student scientific works and in the formation of research skills as a necessary part of formative research.

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