Competency assessment in nursing process during social service

Abstract

Introduction: The nursing process is the tool that systematizes nursing interventions toward the patients in a rational, logical, and substantive way and contributes to improve the quality of service.

Objective: To evaluate the areas of discipline competency in abilities on knowledge, attitude, and procedures on baccalaureate graduated nursing students on the nursing process applied during the social service.

Methodology: 24 items were assessed on 97 baccalaureate graduated nursing students of Superior Nursing and Obstetric School of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, who carried out social service in Health Department hospitals. Simple and correlation analysis were done.

Results: 73.2 % graduates considered they have good level of knowledge about the nursing process; on the component that assessed procedures, they obtained an average score of 9.0; and in the attitudinal area, 51.5 % referred that nursing process improves the quality of service; 8.2 % pointed it out as a strength, 2.1 % does not conceive the discipline without an organized method of work, and 1 % considered it as a criterion for the nursing certification.

Conclusions: The nursing process is the method of fundamental work to give a better attention distinguishing the nurse from other allied health professionals because of their integral vision that allows permeating the biological, psychological, and social spheres of patient, family and community. Nursing schools are the means for students to acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities in the nursing process which will allow them to be qualified professionals. The nursing schools are the students medium to acquire the knowledge, dexterities and abilities in the nurse process that permit them to be qualified professionals.