Integration model of professional training for the undergraduate degree in nursing at UTEQ.

Abstract

Introduction: The curricular redesign is fundamental, that is why this issue was discussed, in this case of an educational service institution such as the STATE UNIVERSITY OF QUEVEDO, among the 5 most important in the country. The idea of ​​this proposal is the redesign of the curricular mesh of the Nursing Undergraduate Career with the insertion of the subjects that will help the student once completed their studies to face the beginning of their professional life with practical and theoretical knowledge, demonstrating what they have learned during their student time. The methodology of this research is of the qualitative, quantitative (mixed) and descriptive model, achieving the elaboration of a feasible proposal with technical elements such as the calculation of the participant population sample collecting information to be processed later. Objective: To determine a model of integration of professional training in the Nursing Career of the State Technical University of Quevedo. Methodology. Descriptive-explanatory study that covers the methodology in the quantitative and qualitative approaches (MIXED) of research., With an analysis-synthesis, documentary analysis and content of literature referring to the subject was used; Original and review articles were consulted in databases: PubMed, CINAHL, SciELO, Medline, Lilacs, BIREME, Scival and Conhrane among others, according to DeCS: Curriculum, Competence-Based Education, Nursing Education. The universe studied was the totality of full-time teachers of the academic unit, being approachable, N = 21 was studied in total. The criteria for selecting participants were: teaching nurses from the career staff, with more than 5 years of permanence in it. Results. The process of curricular innovation of the nursing career of the UTEQ is immersed in policies and agreements that respond to the institutional educational model; attending to the increase in coverage of tertiary or higher education, social transformations and paradigm shifts in health. With the curricular innovation, it was sought to configure a new university model that, without neglecting cognitive solvency and professional competence, places preferential emphasis on the training of reflective, responsible, critical, innovative and versatile subjects to guarantee universal health coverage. The main processes and strategies that were used in this curricular innovation were in accordance with the institutional policies of the universities, following the guidelines of the institutional educational models, strategic teaching objectives inserted in the strategic development plans of the universities.