Curricular Changes And The Opinion Of Students Of The Nursing Program

This study aimed to determine the opinion about the elimination of the tenth semester of the nursing program from the perspective of students and teaching staff of the University Centroccidental "Lisandro Alvarado" for the period July-December 2009. The field study was descriptive with cross-sectional design. The study population consisted of students of sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth semester of the nursing program in addition to the teachers that make up the Community Section and the Curriculum Committee, Department of Nursing. We conducted a stratified probability sampling; each stratum taking 30% of all individuals who made it up, totaling a sample of 68 individuals comprised by 85.3% students and 14.7% teachers. The instrument used to collect data was a questionnaire with 16-closed, polytomous, multiple-choice questions and single answer. It was found that there is a complete feasibility and administrative, curricular and methodological viability to approve the elimination of the tenth semester, based on the results that said that to take the ten semester generates additional costs for the University, the teacher and student, including transportation costs and physical space conditioning. There is the feasibility of reorganizing academic pensum by reorganizing the curricular objectives and teachers within the curriculum of the courses that make up the Community Section. The students obtain a great variety of benefits like the shortening of the career with the same UCLA professional quality.