Influence of the tutor professor in the nursing staff training

• Main Authors: Ritzi Anais Garcia Clavel, Lizette de la Concepción Pérez Martínez, Bievenida Sierra Rodríguez, Tamara Panes Fabara, Sara Maria Mackay Leroux
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas 2019-07-01
• Series: Medisan
• Subjects: enfermería; profesor; tutor; tutoría; nuevo modelo formativo; curso regular diurno; curso encuentro; ciclo técnico.
• Online Access: http://medisan.sld.cu/index.php/san/article/view/1922

Introduction: Tutorship is a pedagogical activity that has as purpose to guide and to support the students during his training process.  Objective: To characterize the professor-tutor in the nursing staff training.  Methods: A descriptive, prospective and cross-sectional study was carried out, in Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso Teaching General Hospital  fromSantiago de Cuba, during the school course 2016-2017. The universe was constituted by 93 professor-tutors and the 311 students of the nursing career, belonging to the different study modalities. Surveys were applied to students and teaching staff. Variables such as relationship student-tutor, teaching category, tutor activities, tutor's preparation for their professional performance and level of students' satisfaction were analyzed . Results: The relation student-tutor was good. The highest percentage of these tutors had no teaching category (73.1 %); also, inadequacies existed in the domain of their functions and limitations in their methodological, pedagogical and scientific preparation.   Conclusions: It could be demonstrated that most of the tutors carry out care works, fundamentally of methodological advice.