Concepts that professors and students have about competency in nursing

Abstract

This is a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and interpretative study. The objective of the study is to identify and contextualize the concepts that professors and students have about competency in nursing. The study was carried out at the Nursing School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The information was collected in two stages. The first one through eight semi-structured individual interviews and the second one through two focus groups. One of them was formed by students and the other group was formed by professors. Content analysis was used as analysis methodology. As a result three categories were found: significance, attributions and dimensions of competency.