Abstract

LOPEZ GONZALEZ, Maylin et al. The nursing vocational activities: alternative for the vocational formation in health sciences. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.4, pp.162-177. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the vocational orientation is a process that helps to choose a profession and to get ready for it through a lifetime. Objective: to value the impact of the designed program for the nursing vocational activities, in the vocational formation of the forth and fifth year students of the primary school. Methods: it was carried out a quasi-experimental prospective study in "Lidia Doce Sánchez", Medical Sciences University Site from Sagua la Grande municipality during the academic year 2013-2014. The population comprised 19 children that were registered in the nursing vocational activities. Methods of the theoretical level were used, among them: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction; empiric methods: an interview in questionnaire form was applied at the beginning and at the end of the investigation through the completing sentences Rotter test and the statistical-mathematical one for the information processing. Results: at the beginning of the study few children accepted nursing as a possible profession, besides not including it among their role plays and they identified the administration of injections as the sole activity of this profession, what reinforced the necessity of the design of the program for the nursing vocational activities. After its implementation, the analyzed figures were considerably modified, so it was corroborated its positive impact in the vocational formation toward that career. Conclusions: the developed program influenced in a positive way in the students` vocational orientation when increasing their motivation, knowledge on that profession, and demonstrated sensitivity towards people`s care, in correspondence with the fundamental values of nursing professionals.

Keywords : Education, nursing; training support; vocational education.

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