%0 Journal Article %T EVALUACI¨®N DE COMPETENCIA DEL NIVEL BACHILLER: "ASEGURAMIENTO DE LA CALIDAD EN LA FORMACI¨®N DE ESTUDIANTES DE ENFERMER¨ªA" %A Mu£¿oz Jofr¨¦ %A Claudia Andrea %A Latrach Ammar %A Cecilia %A Gonz¨¢lez Vacarezza %A Irene %A Araya Novoa %A Mabel %J Ciencia y enfermer¨ªa %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0717-95532010000100009 %X the purpose of this study is to contribute to the quality assurance of professional nurses training through the competency assessment. objective: to design a competency assessment method level bs from the school of nursing as a pilot and model to ensure the quality of education of future nurses. methods: the study was structured in four stages: design evaluation system, performance evaluation process, analysis of the results, monitoring and evaluation. universe of 71 students in second year (n = 67) 2% es. we evaluated skills performance of a health care competency in real hospital context applying a validated heading in 14 nursing activities. students were categorized according to performance of excellence, effective and require improvement. results: 41% of students had an effective performance, 31% exceptional performance and a 28% improvement required. conclusions: the evaluation system was validated, heading facilitated the categorization of the level of performance, one third of the students must undertake remedial measures to improve performance. %K competencies %K assessment %K quality. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-95532010000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en