Objective:
to relate urgency and emergency nurses’ professional competencies with the Nursing care product.
Method:
a cross-sectional study conducted in the urgency and emergency units of two public hospitals. The participants were 91 nurses, 3 Nursing residents, 4 coordinators and 1 manager. Two validated instruments were used: 1) Competence Scale of Actions of Nurses in Emergencies and 2) Nursing Care Product Evaluation. Factors and domains were used, respectively. Descriptive statistics were applied, as well as Cronbach’s alpha, Wilcoxon and Spearman’s correlation tests (p<0.05).
Results:
in the professional competencies, higher values were verified for self-evaluation (p<0.001). In all 1,410 Nursing care product assessments, there was predominance of the “Good” score (n=1,034 - 73.33%). The “Nursing staffing” domain was related to the “Professional practice” (r=0.52719), “Relationships at work” (r=0.54319), “Positive challenge” (r=0.51199), “Targeted action” (r=0.43229), “Constructive behavior” (r=0.25601) and “Adaptation to change” (r=0.22095) factors; the “Care monitoring and transfer” domain, with “Professional practice” (r=0.47244), “Relationships at work” (r=0.46993), “Positive challenge” (r=0.41660) and “Adaptation to change” (r=0.31905) and the “Meeting care needs” domain, with “Professional practice” (r=0.32933), “Relationships at work” (r=0.31168), “Positive challenge” (r=0.29845) and “Adaptation to change” (r=0.28817).
Conclusion:
there is a relationship between professional competencies and the Nursing care product domains.
Descriptors:
Employee Performance Appraisal; Process Assessment, Health Care; Professional Competence; Emergency Nursing; Nursing Administration Research; Professional Practice
Highlights:
(1) The professional competencies are related to the Nursing care product.
(2) Staffing in APROCENF was related to six CSANE factors.
(3) Care transfer in APROCENF was related to four CSANE factors.
(4) Staffing and care transfer require competencies.