Instruments for Evaluating the Influencing Factors on Continuous Training of Nursing Professionals

Abstract

Introduction: Nursing requires constant construction of knowledge through continuous updating and training. Different factors, not only organizational or motivational ones, can negatively limit said activity; the instruments to evaluate them can exclude important determinants to identify.

Objective: To analyze the instruments that evaluate the influencing factors of continuous training of nursing professionals.

Methods: A systematic review was carried out from September 2020 to February 2021 with an antiquity of less than 10 years from the search in digital platforms such as Redalyc, SciELO, UNAM University Nursing, InfoMed, Dialnet, Academic Google and Elsevier, through Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, and keywords. Seventy-two articles were identified, 52 useful for the review and 14 with mention of validated and non-validated instruments. The languages identified were Spanish, English, Portuguese and Malayu.

Conclusions: Each type of modality (face-to-face, hybrid, online and distance) showed a negative factor for professionals to be trained; however, most evaluations focus on organizational and motivational reasons, excluding others that are the responsibility of the professional, such as health status, ability on the computer equipment or handling a second language. There is not an instrument that integrates all the factors, because nursing professionals are not trained and those factors that were included in the instruments were classified in four dimensions: sociodemographic, personal, work and organizational, as an evaluation proposal.