Introduction:

The skills training process is superior to the simple assimilation of the content, since the skills are essential in learning, requiring that the teaching be active through different interrelated stages, but with some flexibility in its application, according to its complexity.

Objective:

To diagnose the state of development of practical skills in third year students (ninth grade) of the Finlay-Albarrán Faculty of Technical Nursing career, March-May 2021. Methodology: The study corresponds to a descriptive cross-sectional design in the Finlay-Albarrán Faculty with third year students of the Technical Nursing career during the period March-May 2021.The universe was represented by the students who started in the Gyneco-Obstetric Nursing rotation. (N = 28) .For the study, theoretical, empirical, and statistical methods were combined.

Results:

The 3rd year Nursing students recognize as skills to develop the measurement of vital signs for 57.14 %, the general physical examination, for a 67.85 %, surgical wound healing for 53.57 % and Nursing evolution for 82.1 %, do not consider the Nursing Care Process, that is, the application of this, which is the scientific method of the profession, as essential knowledge in Nursing practice.

Conclusions:

The state of practical skills in third year Nursing students was diagnosed.

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