INTEGRATION OF NURSING STUDENTS IN INTERPROFESSIONAL TEAMS DURING THE TRAINING PRACTICE OF A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN COLOMBIA

Abstract

During nursing training practices, interprofessional integration favors the development of collaborative competencies that are fundamental for professional practice in health sciences. The objective of this study was to determine the perception of the degree of interprofessional integration of nursing students from a public university in Colombia during their training practices. In its methodology, it was a study with a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional approach carried out in students from the third to ninth semester of nursing, where the degree of interprofessional integration was determined through 4 fundamental categories: participation in clinical activities, interprofessional communication and collaboration, decision-making and supervised responsibility, and institutional and pedagogical recognition and support. In the results, the students reported a global perception of high interprofessional integration, where the category with the highest score was participation in clinical activities, followed by institutional and pedagogical recognition and support, supervised decision-making and responsibilities and finally interprofessional communication and collaboration. In conclusion, the practice scenarios favor the interprofessional integration of nursing students, especially in the participation in clinical activities; however, opportunities for improvement in interprofessional communication and collaboration were identified, in order to consolidate comprehensive training experiences for students.