Intervention Strategy for the Development of Specific Competencies in the Care of the Pathological Neonate

Abstract

<i>Introduction:</i> Neonatology experts affirm that neonatal complications are closely related to the performance of nurses, in such a sense the factual reasons that motivate the present study denoted a high incidence of complications in neonates assisted at the NICU of the National Hospital "Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in The Gambia in the period of julio-december 2021, revealed an increase in complications and the number of neonatal deaths. The solution of this assignment has as <i>objective</i>: Implement an intervention strategy for the development of specific competencies in the care of the pathological newborn that contributes to the prevention of complications and impacts on the quality of life of the child population in The Gambia. The intervention strategy implemented is based on the philosophical, sociological, psychological and epistemological ones that, from their contextualization, improvement the <i>development</i> of competencies in the care of the pathological neonate in 26 nurses who participated in the study. As a <i>result</i> of the implementation, it was possible to verify the level of promotion of the competencies to an average of 4.03, which corresponds to high levels of development and its impact on neonatal morbidity and mortality in the NICU. <i>Conclusions:</i> the intervention Strategy is the theoretical methodological concretion that from the scientific point of view emanates from the work in the training of personnel competencies in the NICU, is in correspondence with the social demands and the requirements of the Health System in the Cuban medical mission. The Gambia.