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In nursing, quality care depends on good standards of knowledge and performance,
showed by professionals ‘competence. Bearing in mind the important role that inservice/
continuous training must play in knowledge and competencies development, we
carried out a study in order to answer to the following questions: What is the
contribution of the in service training in nurses’ competence development? Does the
current in-service training model influences that process and which difficulties may
influence nurses’ competence development? We adopted a characteristic methodology
used in the exploratory studies.
Result analysis allowed us to conclude that the in-service training model used
contributes to the development of nurses’ knowledge and competencies. Sharing
knowledge and experiences between team members, mostly, the ones with longer
professional experience, the existence of updated protocols in the work contexts and the
reflection about the professional activities among the colleagues are the elements with a
more positive contribute on that process. On the other side, the main difficulties are: the
substitution of the less experienced colleagues by others with more nursing experience,
instead of teaching them, and the method by «attempt and error». The in-service
training model has limitations, since the training moments should be based on a
reflexive work; also, these moments should allow sharing issues such as: the difficulties
felted in the daily work, relational problems and nurses performance and practice.
In service training must demonstrate a reflexive professional practice; as an example of
adult education, the learning is directly connected with the experience.
Description
Dissertação mest., Ciências da educação - Educação e formação de adultos, Universidade do Algarve, 2008
Keywords
Formação de adultos Enfermagem Aprendizagem Desenvolvimento Competências