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Teaching and Learning Needs in Nursing Students: Role of the Family

Yenia Salazar Morales, Susana Balcindes Acos

Introduction: The family is an institution and the teaching-learning process is a unit that aims to contribute to the integral formation of the student’s personality. Hence the need for school-home are closely linked in the education of future generations.

Objective: To assess the difficulties that influence the teaching and learning process and the role of the family.

Materials and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study, in which a survey was applied to 1^st year nursing students.

Results: The variables presented in the survey were analyzed for a total of 59 respondents (20.3%). 33.8% live with their mothers in both sexes. The level of schooling of their families is average technical for 44.06%. In another group, students study at university level for 30.5%, as the family influences the forms or ways of studying. The student of nursing emphasizes that they prefer to study alone for 50.8%, each member of the family is unaware of the testing days of their children. Another important factor that affects the teaching-learning process for 62.7%, the age of 15 years for 66.1%, the most affected sex for 54.2%. The main factor that prevents the correct learning of the nursing student are discussions at home for 54.2%.

Conclusions: In the present research, the family, the primary factor that fosters in the nursing student feelings, qualities and values, the harmonious conjugation of them, simplifies the qualities that are desired in the child and youth that we educate in today’s school.