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La educación continua una necesidad para el personal asistencial de los centros de salud: estudio documental 2006- 2015

Resumen en español

Health centers are places that provide wellness care, including hospitals, clinics, outpatient care centers, centers specialized care, in these health centers works a human resource with different professions, however, for the welfare service their staff consists of: head nurses, nursing assistants, instrumentalists, general practitioners and medical specialists who most represents a direct use with biomedical equipment in health centers, an activity that requires having previous knowledge and continuous updates during use and avoid or reduce adverse event reports associated with the use of biomedical equipment. The aim of this study is to investigate and identify the inevitable need for continuing education in the use of biomedical equipment, primarily for the care team of health centers through a document review within the period 2006- 2015. The methodology quantitative research is cutting descriptive documentary study uses the technique for finding information needs associated risks and the lack of continuing education for the nursing staff of the health centers. The translations of the research study can show that there is a need for a continuing education program in health centers because it is evident that the nursing staff does not have the full knowledge of the use of biomedical equipment causing poor equipment operation and to an adverse event associated with lack of training, the need for health center to maintain prestige likewise meet the standards established for quality management system, drive to continuing education to develop. The continuing education programs can become a strategy of health centers to decide to continue or not in the market, considering that its goal is to provide every day a better health service and quality improving processes continuing education to be more competitive, it not only seeks an improvement or strengthening the skills of caregivers, also looking for a job and academic growth of workforce health centers which in this case is nursing assistants, nurses ( os) heads, general practitioners and medical specialists.