TY - JOUR AU - Miranda, Delma Noemi PY - 2022/06/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Professional competencies of nursing personnel in maternal and newborn care: a comparative study in the Neonatology and Obstetrics JF - Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología JA - Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología VL - 2 IS - SE - Original DO - 10.56294/saludcyt202248 UR - https://revista.saludcyt.ar/ojs/index.php/sct/article/view/48 SP - 48 AB - <p>Introduction: Competencies are understood as an integrated combination of knowledge skills and attitudes conducive to adequate and timely performance in various contexts of the health team.</p><p>Objective: to carry out a comparative analysis of the competencies of the nursing staff in the care of the mother and newborn in the Neonatology and Obstetrics services.</p><p>Methods: An observational, descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional, retrospective study was carried out. The sample consisted of 65 nurses from a public institution of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, of whom 34 belonged to the Neonatology service and 31 to the Obstetrics service.</p><p>Results: 84.62% were female, the average age was 45.09±9.94, and 63.08% had a degree in Nursing. Higher values were obtained in the obstetrics service in the three dimensions; on the other hand, there were significant differences between the own and crossed competencies in both the Neonatology and Obstetrics services (intra-service competencies); and on the other hand, no differences were found between the values of the own and crossed competencies between services (inter-service competencies). It can be affirmed that the nursing staff of the obstetrics service possesses as a whole higher own and cross competencies than those of the neonatology staff.</p><p>Conclusions: In this study it was found that the staff of the Obstetrics area possesses overall higher number of competencies in maternal and infant care with respect to that of Neonatology.</p> ER -