Hernández-Muñoz A, García-Aguiluz K, Ponce-Gómez G, Bernal-Becerril ML, Rivas-Espinosa JG

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 125-128
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Continued education is a basic tool in order to the nurse gets trained, updated, and skilled in her practice allowing her to raise quality during the given care.
Objective: Analyze the main motivational factors in the nursing staff that influence attendance to continued education courses in a private hospital in Mexico, City.
Methodology: A transversal study was done with 141 nurses who represented 37.2% from the study group; data collection was done through a self conducted instrument whose internal reliability measure reached 0.755 on Cronbach’s alpha. The statistical package SPSS V11.0 was utilized for analysis of data.
Results: As it is shown, nursing staff is predominantly unmarried, female, and with technical level of education. The global motivation for attendance to courses was considered adequate; as well as the attendees are self perceived with adequate capabilities and skills to attend these courses. It is important to emphasize that the relation among dimensions, capabilities, and skills; the attributed importance for attendance to courses and the feeling toward the behavior of attendance, show a mean correlation force (r=+0.435, prob=0.001).
Conclusions: The factors for no attendance to continued education courses of nursing staff were: lack of time, financial resources, lack of institutional recognition and raise position; which showed that actualization influence the care given to the user.

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