Evaluación de la profesionalización de los docentes de Enfermería y Tecnología de la Salud.

Introduction: Teaching professionalization is an entity of educational sphere which has gained a strong role among researchers in this area of knowledge from the end of the 20th century. Objective: To assess the current state of evaluation of Nursing and Health Technology careers teachers’ professionalization. Methods: An observational and descriptive investigation was carried out, during the year 2021, of the 144 teachers of Faculty of Nursing and Health Technology from Santiago de Cuba province, for which 6 variables were analyzed: teaching activity, scientific-investigative activity, care activity, management activity, bioethical activity and professional performance; as well as a total of 21 indicators, in correspondence with the current demands in medical education. Results: The methodological triangulation of the applied instruments was 6.7, estimated as a low level of development, which allowed corroborating that the evaluation of the teachers’ professionalization was affected in that period. Conclusions: The problems and potentialities identified endorse the need to develop the evaluation of the teachers’ professionalization in this Faculty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]