Diagnosis in professional guidance of first-year students of Nursing in the School “Lidia Gouverner” of Matanzas

Abstract

Introduction: the efficient training of the Professional Technical Education students is a challenge for the current Cuban education. An adequate professional guidance helps to achieve that important aim.
Objective:  to diagnose professional guidance in first-year students of Nursing in the School “Lidia Gouverner” of Matanzas
Materials and methods: the dialectical-materialist is the universal method sustaining the research in a population of 60 first-year students. The school year 2010-2011 and the status of students´ training are evaluated. Direct observation and surveys are applied. The obtained results are presented in tables using percentages.
Results: the research allowed stating that there are difficulties negatively affecting the process. Among them: professional aspirations that are not related with the studied profession (only 33.2 %); 45.6 % used it as a way to insert themselves in other specialty of the Medical Sciences; few vocation for Nursing (23.4 %); ignorance of the technics that are proper of the chosen professions and not assisting to Nursing hobby clubs (78.3 %), and 83.4 % of them said that more activities are required to increase motivation.
Conclusions: the poor professional guidance affects the students´ motivation for Nursing specialty, the successful performance in it, and as the most negative aspect, the lack of future vision as a professional.