TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES TRAINING NEEDS IDENTIFICATION FOR NURSING - A PILOT RESEARCH

In our days, nurses required to implement technical skills as part of their job. Technical skills refer not only to those actions and to duties nurses perform specific to the profession (e.g. calculating drug dosages, medication administration, gastric tube insertion, urinary catheterization) but also, to use new technology apparatus (e.g. imagistic apparatus, scanners or screenings etc.). In this context, the paper will present a pilot research developed with 6 sample groups (4 groups of students and 2 groups of specialized nurses) for the technical training competencies identification and the most successful training methods associated with them in the case of a nursing educational program. The research method used was focusgroup based on a structured interview protocol. The conclusions were made on the technical skills profiles analysis.