Competence profile differences among graduates from different academic subject fields: implications for improving students’ education

The aim of a university education is the intellectual development of citizens, and the training of professionals for their subsequent entry into the workforce. However, this entry into the workforce, following the theoretical education usually provided by the university, implies that students have to manage this difficult transition by themselves. Society, in a continual process of transformation, requires of universities that they adjust, adapting the education they offer to comply with the demands of society and the workplace. Socio-emotional skills would seem to have influence predicting professional performance. These skills also influence job-finding and employability. Consequently, providing teachers with an education in socioemotional competences is becoming a necessary task within universities, and the majority of teaching staff consider these skills to be fundamental to the personal and socio-emotional development of students. The objective of our proposed work is to establish the characteristic profile of competences of a sample of teachers in training, and compare it with the competences profile of graduate students belonging to the fields of law sciences, social sciences, humanities, science and technology, and health. Starting from results, implications will be derived for the development of generic competences of socio-emotional type in the framework of the European Frame of Higher Education.

Percepción de las enfermeras de atención especializada sobre la prescripción enfermera

El objetivo de esta investigación fue determinar la percepción que sobre el concepto de “prescripción enfermera” tienen los profesionales enfermeros de atención especializada. Para ello se realizó un abordaje cualitativo mediante técnica Delphi, con la participación de 20 profesionales enfermeros que constituyeron el grupo de expertos. El período de estudio estuvo comprendido entre diciembre de 2008 y febrero de 2009 y se desarrolló en un hospital de tercer nivel de la Comunidad de Madrid. Se identificaron 17 actividades que fueron entendidas por el grupo de expertos como prescripción enfermera, siendo éstas agrupadas con arreglo a tres categorías: prescripción independiente, colaborativa y basándose en un protocolo. El grupo de expertos consideró que dichas actividades pueden ser desarrolladas mediante dos perfiles competenciales enfermeros: el perfil administrativo y el facultativo.