Competências a serem desenvolvidas na formação gerontogeriátrica em enfermagem de nível médio: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

The mid-level nursing professionals are in the largest number of top-level professionals in healthcare institutions, and carry out most care to elderly patients. The mid-level nursing professional, formed by powers is able to understand why your doing, this search perform their professional activities, stating the problematization, valuing and integrating all dimensions of knowledge. This work aims to identify competencies to be developed in the Middle nursing professional for assistance to the health needs of the elderly person. It is an integrative review of the literature search, through secondary sources. The publications were selected in the databases LILACS and SCIELO, BDENF, through standardized descriptors and relevant research. 24317 publications, where after examination of the criteria of inclusion and exclusion, participated in the survey 08 publications. All selected studies were nurses, published in different journals and performed in different Brazilian States in the period from 2003 to 2010. The results demonstrated competencies covering ACE areas of competences/skills/knowledge, sk ills, attitudes, skills, covering the whole of the health needs of the elderly person. Research has demonstrated a Senegalese fishing stocks in national publications covering the vocational training in nursing of medium level competence in the field gerontológico. Highlights if that training for competence, requires the participation of the student and nurse lecturer in the process of learning, and that to meet the health needs of the elderly person, it is necessary to the development of professional skills in various areas, making it possible to overcome the fragmentation of care and the promotion of a holistic performance and quality with the older person.