Skills training by skills development techniques for Nursing students

Abstract

Objectives: to identify the contributions of skills training through simulation as a pedagogical strategy to develop competencies in the training of Nursing students. Method: this was a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive study. The study setting was a discipline of the undergraduate Nursing course of a public university in southern Brazil. Participants were students enrolled in the collection semester, constituting a convenience sample. Data were collected in 2019, at the end of the skills training, through a questionnaire composed of open-ended questions. The data corpus was submitted to thematic analysis, following the steps of pre-analysis, material exploration, treatment of the results obtained, and interpretation. Results: twenty-five students agreed to participate in the study, and the results comprised three categories: i) Skills training as a strategy to develop criticality in learning; ii) Learning from knowing oneself and recognizing feelings that emerged during the experience; iii) Contributions to developing competencies from a dialogical process. Conclusion: skills training provides the opportunity to develop dexterity and mastery of technical procedures prior to clinical practice and contributes to the educational process of Nursing students through the development of competencies. The professors’ welcoming and receptive pedagogical posture, contributing to a positive experience, stood out.