EVALUACIóN DE COMPETENCIA DEL NIVEL BACHILLER: "ASEGURAMIENTO DE LA CALIDAD EN LA FORMACIóN DE ESTUDIANTES DE ENFERMERíA"

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.