%0 Journal Article %T Las Competencias: su importancia para la planificaci¨®n de los programas de capacitaci¨®n de Enfermer¨ªa %A Barroso Romero %A Zoila %A Colomer Barroso %A Elaine %J Revista Cubana de Enfermer£¿-a %D 2007 %I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X the planning of educative processes, starting from the competences and their significance for planning training programs is very important in the world at present. that is why a therotetical work on information search was made to show the significance of competences for planning nursing training programs. the bibliometric method was used for searching different viewpoints related to this topic. a theoretical approach was also made based on the criteria of the different specialists consulted and the opinions of the authors. the results of the investigations carried out and their application to courses, diploma projects, specialties, and the nursing career were exposed, which showed the usefulness of the competence determination to approach the training programs in this proffesion %K nursing %K competences %K abilities %K roles %K programs. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-03192007000400005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en