Tendencies in pedagogic and scientific-investigative professional training in nurses and health technologists

Abstract

Introduction: The increase in scientific knowledge and its technological implementations has an effect on a group of spheres of life, particularly education. Objective: To analyze the main tendencies of the pedagogic and scientific - investigative training in nursing and health technology professionals. Methods: An educational, descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study was carried out that included 45 professors from the Health Nursing-Technology Faculty of Santiago de Cuba, linked to the teaching educational process from September, 2021 to July, 2022, for which theoretical and practical methods were used. Results: In the series, there was a prevalence of the professors trained in the health sector (93.3%) in connection with those graduated from the Ministry of Higher Education (6.7%). All of them had received pedagogic and scientific-investigative training, but they considered that their pedagogical arsenal was still insufficient. Conclusions: The integration of teaching with attendance and research was the most evident tendency in members of the case material.

Keywords

• docentes
• tendencias pedagógicas
• actividad científico-investigativa
• preparación pedagógica.