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An action plan aimed at self-learning strategies in student in the first semester of the nursing major

Abstract:

Introduction: Professional training in health sciences requires the achievement of competences that encourage learning how to learn, for which it is necessary to develop the students’ cognitive autonomy. Objectives: To assess the students’ satisfaction with an action plan aimed at improving their autonomous learning strategies. Methods: A pre-experimental study was developed in which the entire population was studied, made up by 33 students of the first semester of the Nursing major from the National University of Chimborazo, Ecuador, during the academic period October 2015-February 2016. The Delphi method was used to validate the applied questionnaire and for the design of the action plan. The Iadov technique was used to determine the indexes of group and individual satisfaction of the students in relation to the executed plan of actions. Results: 93.94 % answered that they do like to study, but the majority considered not being ready to assume their own learning. Only 30.30 % of the investigated individuals entered the Nursing major guided by self-vocation. Conclusions: We identified deficiencies related to habits and self-learning techniques related to reading, planning, procedures, deepening into topic analysis and group work. The group’s satisfaction index remained in the satisfactory category, while in the individual group the satisfaction index prevailed.