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Enfermería universitaria
versión On-line ISSN 2395-8421versión impresa ISSN 1665-7063
Resumen
HERNANDEZ-MARQUEZ, C.; OJEDA-CHACON, T.; TORRES-PAZ, P.I. y ARIZMENDI-JAIME, E.. Nursing postgraduate researching thesis characterizations. Enferm. univ [online]. 2020, vol.17, n.3, pp.328-339. Epub 15-Nov-2021. ISSN 2395-8421. https://doi.org/10.22201/eneo.23958421e.2020.3.758.
Introduction:
While producing their postgraduate thesis, students get closer to researching activities and acquire diverse competencies in their discipline fields. The analysis of these trends allows a better identification of the decisions related to areas of opportunity and the development of scientific knowledge.
Objective:
To identify the characteristics of the thesis works produced by graduate students from the Masters in Nursing and the Specialty Nursing programs.
Methods:
This is a retrospective, transversal, and descriptive study. 144 thesis works submitted during the period 2013-2018 were analyzed. The degree of correspondence between the topics presented in the submitted works and the current Lines of Generation and Application of Knowledge (LGAK) was assessed.
Results:
The topics related to management had a correspondence of 91.7% with the management LGAK; the topics related to older adult in critical status attention had a correspondence of 86% with the institutional integral attention LGAK, and regarding the Masters in Nursing program specifically, a 51.1% correspondence was found with the topics of healthcare and health promotion. The main objects of study were: the performance of the nursing personnel (52.8%); the knowledge of nursing professionals (60%); and the quality of the attention (32%). 91% of the thesis works followed a quantitative approach, with 88.9% being observational.
Discussion:
The results suggest the need to consider enhancing the scope of researching formation among both the students and academic staff in this postgraduate program.
Conclusion:
The topics addressed in the submitted works showed sufficient correspondence with the objectives of the programs. The most frequently used methodological approach was the quantitative-observational. Nursing studies focused on interventions to improve the situations which both patients and health professionals face were the most prevalent.
Palabras llave : Academic dissertation as topic; education, nursing, graduate; nursing research; Mexico.