A Training Model for the Professional Competence Managment of Safety of Sick People in Intensive Care

Abstract

Introduction: Nowadays, there is a need for a training model aimed at the professional competence management of safety of sick people in intensive care.

Objective: To design a training model for the professional competence management of safety of sick people in intensive care.

Methods: A qualitative-descriptive research was conducted in the Baracoa municipality’s medical sciences campus of Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Guantánamo, Cuba, from 2016 to 2018. The universe was made up of 74 professors of the province. Using the simple random method, a sample of 21 Nursing professors was selected, accounting for 30 %. The holistic-configurational, modeling and documental analysis methods were used for the substantiation of epistemological, philosophical, psychological and pedagogical assumptions that support it. A questionnaire was applied by means of an interview to academic managers and professors. The model was then structured.

Results: The model comprises three dimensions: the cognitive-affective dimension of intensive care, professional cultural orientation, and reflective assessment in the safety of the sick person in intensive care. From these, the configurations were structured, based on their internal relationships; and the qualities emerged: cognitive-intellectual of intensive care nursing, procedural-motor and attitudinal-affective.

Conclusions: The model is shaped as a dialectical synthesis in the functional integration of knowledge, know-how and know–how to be (values), which allows the student to ensure quality care upon identifying, assessing, reducing or eliminating the risk of an adverse event affecting sick people, their family members, the population, professionals and the institution itself.