Labor market insertion, management and training by competencies: a current view in the Argentine context

Abstract

University management by nursing schools should be oriented to facilitate the labor insertion of their graduates by evaluating the efficiency of the training system, determining whether the final competencies of the nursing student are at the level required in the labor practice, allowing the identification of real learning needs. Within the framework of the information and knowledge society and the social demands regarding professional practices, the meaning of education based on the Napoleonic model that sustains a conception based on the thought of training for the world of work, thus the academy is linked to produce adjustments of the curricular designs to respond in a macro-educational way to the socio-cultural determinations and at the same time to create added value in the profile of the graduates. The objective of this panoramic review is to analyze the professional competencies of nursing graduates and their relationship with labor market insertion, with special emphasis on the Argentine context. Encouraging the inclusion of more nurses, through labor and educational policies and incentives for university professional training, may be a first step to reduce labor intensity and improve the quality of care. In addition, promoting the demands of this group of workers in the unions that represent them, providing greater visibility for their demands in order to improve their labor rights, is also an important step on this path.