[Evaluating the performance appraisal in daily nursing practice].

The objective of this study was determine the development of performance appraisal in daily nursing practice aiming to up-date and adequate the program of Nursing Management Post-graduation Courses. The sample was composed by 27 nurses students of the first and second post-graduation course in 1994 and 1995. The results showed that performance appraisal is not established in the nurses work reality (51%) and 70% of respondents assert that they did not receive any training in this field. The qualitative results added to quantitative data allow to point the necessity to invest in nursing education both in graduation and post-graduation levels, to carry out the performance appraisal like a process searching the development and improvement of human resources and working relations.