Evaluation of the graduates of the course for nursing directors

Abstract

From March 25 to May 15, 1996, it was carried out in the Hospital General de Zona No. 8 of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Córdoba, Veracruz, an observable, transversal, retrospective and descriptive study order to evaluate a nursering directive personal's actualization and progress course, by means comparisons between integral evaluation and themselves evaluation. Measure unit was based in accreditation parameters of medical education mentioned in medical care quality, with Excellent, Sufficient, Insufficient and Deficient variables. Sample's universe was given by nurses that finished the course. They had to do a exam answering just true or false to each sentence, evaluating in this way cognitive area; psychomotor area was evaluated in right values tables as well using a qualitative and quantitative description card to accredit affective area. Finally a self-evaluation card to labor performance after a capacitation process. About assignees parameters to evaluate the efficient agree decreasing order the results were: Insufficient 53.3%, Excellent 26.6%, Sufficient 13.3 % and finally Deficient 6.6%, obtaining significant differences (p<0.05), in cognitive area evaluation denote insufficient parameter on 66.6%, finding once again significancy (p=0.0005). In affective area the excellent and sufficient parameters were similar values 33.3%, and without significancy, (p=0.10). Results showed an insufficient category predominance, specially in cognitive area; in psychomotor and affective areas the excellent and sufficient parameters, finding negative correlation between integral evaluation and selfevaluation.