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ENERO 2004 N° 1 Volumen 2

Assessment according to responsibilities in nursing in the process of integral training (II)

Section: TEACHING TO LEARN

Authors

Epifanio Fernández Collado

Position

Director del Área y Departamento de Enfermería de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad Europea de Madrid.

Contact address

Universidad Europea de Madrid. Urbanización ?El Bosque?. C/ Tajo, s/n. 28070 Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid.

Contact email: epifanio.fernandez@efm.cisa.uem.es

Abstract

Assessment according to responsibility framework in Nursing at the European University of Madrid (UEM) is not intended as a theoretical tradition viewing assessment as an acted knowledge of abstract nature, universal and idealised, but as the capacity of fulfilment, situated and affected by the setting in which the nursing student thrives. It focuses on an intermediate point between a positive approach-technical rationality, and an emerging approach: reflection on action and epistemology of complexity. It can be thought of as an evaluation of innate capacities or as an evaluation of skills that can be intervened from a social standpoint.

To think of assessment in terms of the responsibility scope as a process of integral education is to adopt a new vision and attitude as a teacher. The aim is to progress from a causal, co-structural,  artificial and totally accidental view towards the construction of the nursing knowledge, through a guided and systemic permanent acquisition of knowledge. Within the Nursing Department, this “assessment” has become the milestone and the point of reference of the teaching process as a tool that helps in the training of free-thinking, free-acting nursing professionals who are capable of managing their own education, thus actively participating towards the attainment of an autonomous nurse. This is the path that the European University of Madrid has been following each year, with more enthusiasm each time.

Keywords:

training; responsibility scope; assessment; evaluation; reflection practice; nursing; edagogic contract; portfolioreflective diary

Versión en Español

Título:

La evaluación por competencias en enfermería en el proceso de formación integral (II)