Influence of the tutor professor in the nursing staff training

Abstract

Introduction: Tutorship is a pedagogical activity that has as purpose to guide and to support the students during his training process. Objective: To characterize the professor-tutor in the nursing staff training. Methods: A descriptive, prospective and cross-sectional study was carried out, in Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso Teaching General Hospital fromSantiago de Cuba, during the school course 2016-2017. The universe was constituted by 93 professor-tutors and the 311 students of the nursing career, belonging to the different study modalities. Surveys were applied to students and teaching staff. Variables such as relationship student-tutor, teaching category, tutor activities, tutor's preparation for their professional performance and level of students' satisfaction were analyzed . Results: The relation student-tutor was good. The highest percentage of these tutors had no teaching category (73.1 %); also, inadequacies existed in the domain of their functions and limitations in their methodological, pedagogical and scientific preparation. Conclusions: It could be demonstrated that most of the tutors carry out care works, fundamentally of methodological advice.

Keywords

• enfermería
• profesor
• tutor
• tutoría
• nuevo modelo formativo
• curso regular diurno
• curso encuentro
• ciclo técnico.