Skills of Nursing Academics in Collecting the Preventive Exam for Uterine Cervical Cancer

Abstract

Objective: The general objective of this study was to identify the level of competence in the collection of preventive cervical cancer examination among nursing students attending the supervised internship. Method: The study presented a quantitative approach conducted in 2019. Participants were 80 students of the 9th semester of the Nursing Course of the University of the Amazon, during three months of supervised internship in Primary Health Care. Twenty-one competencies were analyzed in the collection of the oncopherotic colpocytology exam. From the application of a checklist during the supervised internship, each student was evaluated five times. Results: The evolution of the minimum competencies of the nursing student during the five collections of the onoptic cytology examination was notorious. From the third collection, it was observed that 41.3% of the students with unsatisfactory performance, there was a reduction to 5% in the fourth collection. In the fifth collection of the exam, 92.5% of the students with the satisfactory exam technique. Conclusion: Therefore, it is suggested the implementation of the checklist during the collection of the onoptic cytology exam in the supervised stage, that each student has the opportunity to make at least five collections.