ALUMINI EVALUATION ON THE TECHNICAL COURSE IN NURSING OF A STATE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING CENTER

Abstract

It is necessary to evaluate the training of nursing technicians to understand how this training is related to professional performance. The objective was to track the alumni profile of a technical school; identify how they evaluate the teaching-learning process experienced in the course; evaluate, from the alumni perspective, the training experienced in relation to their professional performance. This is a descriptive exploratory study, with quantitative data distributed according to absolute and relative frequency and qualitative subjected to content analysis. In total, 128 alumni participated, 92.97% women; 34.37% married; 77.34% under the age of 40; 64.07% got a job within six months after completing the course; 40.63% are employed in the private service; Most of the subjects were considered sufficient for professional practice, with percentages higher than 80%. The topics were systematized: technical training is a passport to enter the world of work; from technical training to comprehensive human training; the role of teachers in training and the things that could be different in the technical nursing course. The training, from alumni perspectives, was sufficient and decisive in their lives for insertion and permanence in work, showing the importance of public spaces for technical training in nursing.