Profile of nursing graduates: competencies and professional insertion.

Autor: Barbosa ACS; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sudeste de Minas Gerais, São João del-Rei, MG, Brazil., Luiz FS; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil., Friedrich DBC; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Faculdade de Enfermagem, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil., Püschel VAA; Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São Paulo, SP, Brazil., Farah BF; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Faculdade de Enfermagem, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil., Carbogim FDC; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Faculdade de Enfermagem, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese; Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Revista latino-americana de enfermagem [Rev Lat Am Enfermagem] 2019 Oct 28; Vol. 27, pp. e3205. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Oct 28 (Print Publication: 2019).
DOI: 10.1590/1518-8345.3222.3205
Abstrakt: Objective: evaluate the profile of the graduates of Nursing a public college from the perception of skills developed during graduation and the process of professional insertion.
Method: quantitative, exploratory and descriptive study. The sample was composed of 216 graduates. The data was collected by a validated questionnaire and sent to a population of 470 egresses via electronic mail. For the analysis of the data, frequencies, mean and standard deviation were applied and, for the correlation, the chi-square test.
Results: the majority of the participants were female (88%) and the mean age was 29.62 years. The majority (65%) had an employment relationship, 14% worked in a single institution and 48% started working six months after graduation. Regarding the form of work, 56% work in care, with an average of 4.5 minimum wages and a weekly workload between 37 and 44 hours. The majority reported competence acquisition to practice the profession, assisting the patient in his integrality with ethics and applying technical and scientific concepts in care.
Conclusion: the study made it possible to describe the singularities of nurses' education, their insertion in the world of work and the impact on the educational institution, as well as the presentation of specific competences from the perspective of the graduates themselves.
Databáze: MEDLINE