Competency profile of Nursing career teachers at a public University in Paraguay

Abstract

A competency is an integrated set of knowledge, skills, representations and behaviors mobilized to solve professional problems. Being competent implies being able to carry out a professional activity, solve problems or develop projects in a timely manner by integrally mobilizing a know-how, together with relevant conceptual knowledge and with diverse capacities for action and relationship, in order to obtain quality results. The objective of the research was to describe the competency profile of teachers in the Nursing Career of a public university in Paraguay, in the year 2022. The research was quantitative, descriptive and non-experimental design. We worked with a population of 42 teachers, by means of a census sampling. The data collection instrument used was a survey by means of a questionnaire and documentary observation, elaborated on the basis of each specific objective. The results were as follows: 69% of the teachers were female, 52% had been teaching for more than 10 years, and 57% had specialist training. Regarding the specific competencies, in all indicators the participants scored an excellent level above 80%, which was also evidenced in the cross-cutting competencies. In conclusion, teachers possess specific and generic or transversal competencies for the fulfillment of the development of teaching in higher education at high levels, according to the capacity, ability, practice, values and attitudes to carry out the teaching process.