Determinantes del rendimiento académico de alumnos de la Carrera Licenciatura en Enfermería de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán en el período 2003-2011

Conocer en qué medida la Universidad cumple su misión dentro de la sociedad es fundamental en las instituciones de Educación Superior. El objetivo general de este trabajo es estudiar las características que influyen en el rendimiento académico en una cohorte de alumnos de la carrera Licenciatura en Enfermería de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, período 2003-2011 según sede. Los objetivos específicos son: Determinar las características socioeconómicas. Se realizó un estudio longitudinal con seguimiento de 588 alumnos ingresantes a 1º año en el año 2003. El total de egresados de la Licenciatura en el periodo analizado fue del 1,36% (8) y todos corresponden a la sede Capital. El 14% (81) culminó el primer ciclo y obtuvo el diploma de Enfemera/o Universitria/o, de los cuales la mayor proporción corresponde a la sede Aguilares, los principales determinantes del rendimiento academico fueron el sexo, el trabajo al inicio de la carrera y las caracyteristicas socioeconomicas de los estudiantes. Todos los alumnos que culminaron el primer ciclo y la carrera se constituyeron en la primera generación de universitarios en sus familia

Lifestyles of students of the Nursing School of the National University of Tucumán, Argentina

Background: the healthy lifestyle is established as a shielding factor against the development of diverse chronic illnesses, and in the case of the infirmary student, its adoption impacts in the effectiveness of its future professional practice as educator in health, also about the quality of the borrowed attention. Objective: to describe the behaviors associated to the lifestyles of the students of the University School of Infirmary of the National University of Tucumán in Argentina. Methods: a descriptive, traverse and quantitative study was carried out. 406 students were interviewed with the questionnaire Health Promoting Life Profile II under the Nola Pender pattern. The instrument obtained an alpha of Cronbach of 0,93 (high reliability) in the studied population. Results: the typical age was of 28,63 years. The feminine sex, single and students of the first year. Spiritual growth and manage of the stress were the dimensions with the adult and smaller punctuation, respectively. The average of the lifestyle was of 117,17 (OF: 20,10; IC 95 %: 115,21-119,14) with a characterization of regulating. Conclusion: 3,94 % of those interviewed obtained a lifestyle evaluated as healthy, and the variables that impacted were the age, the sex, the civil state and the year of the plan of studies in which they are inscribed. Its required of the design and implementation of actions them to favor the adoption of healthy lifestyles in the infirmary students to diminish the risk of suffering chronic not transmissible illnesses and contributes to his education on health education