[Analysis of professional applications of training given to general nursing care staff in continuing education].

At a time when any leaders, either political or socioeconomical speak about "productivity, professional qualification, high-technology, research, etc.", it seemed to us that it was essential, as far as Public Health is concerned, to analyse through a medium-sized hospital the vocational training given to nurses working in general care. What does the nursing staff think about it? What about the "educational quality"? What are the consequences and effects of this training on a professional and human ground? Our hypothesis of research is to invalidate or to confirm those elements (different from those found in literature) can be more helpful to put into pratice the training on a professional ground. Those elements are: a number of training attended by nurses (from 6 to 12 in 5 years) ans which take the educational principles into account, that is why we have decided to condiser what presently exist, that is to say: the hospital and its plan, the current training, the nursing staff concerned and alle the possible means to succeed. Like this the problem was formulated and we could search a review for elements which sustain our analysis. The results of our research, which was based on a methodological way, prove that there is not only a great variety of applications of those teachings on a professional ground but also no application of the teachings on a professional ground. From this study and apart from the educational quality, we can note that the training subjects must be in connection with the hospital development, society and the medical profession. Anyway, the trainings are short, theoretical, do not fit in with the professional ground and do no consider the knowledge people acquired from other trainings. Our conclusion tend to confirme that the vocational training is necessary as well as its application from which the nursing staff can gain a lot.