Evaluation of management competencies: the perception of students in the nursing undergraduate course of the University of São Paulo

a percepção de alunos do curso de graduação em enfermagem da USP

Abstract

This work is justified because of the need to evaluate training by competencies in the School of Nursing of the University of São Paulo. The objectives were:to analyze the perception of nursing students in the seventh and eighth semesters of the undergraduate course on the management competencies that they had acquired in the undergraduate course and provide input for the nursing administration knowledge for the reformulation of the evaluation process based on competences. Therefore, in the first, quantitative stage, an instrument was created with issues on the four pillars that make up the competencies for management: how to do, how to know, how to be and how to coexist. In the second, qualitative stage there was a focus group to analyze the perception of students about the development of their competencies. The results show that the students understand the need for their training to be based on competencies, but they believe there is a strong dichotomy between theory and practice.