Analysis of professional identity through nurses' educational competence

Abstract

The present article deals with nurses’ perception of their own professional competence, other health professionals’ view and patients’ social perspective. Two discussion groups integrated by nurses working in two Madrid hospitals were constituted; most of our general study was carried out in these two hospitals. Both groups had different profiles, thus their discourses varied in many aspects, as can be seen in the analysis and conclusions. The aim was to identify discourses elaborated by nurses interacting with other colleagues from the same hospital regarding educational competence towards hospitalised chronic patients. From the analysis of discourses on the educational role, characteristics assigned to education by these two groups of nurses were identified, along with difficulties and conditioning factors. The discussion groups own dynamics facilitated other discourses emerging in connection to the development of their educational role, such as social acknowledgement of the profession.

Keywords

• Competencias profesionales
• Actividad educadora
• Grupos de discusión
• Rol educativo
• Metodología de enfermería
• Hospital