Reconfigurar a Competência Clínica: O Papel Estruturante das Competências Não Técnicas na Formação em Enfermagem
Reconfigurar a Competência Clínica: O Papel Estruturante das Competências Não Técnicas na Formação em Enfermagem
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.82082426100215
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Palavras-chave: Competências não Técnicas; Educação em Enfermagem; Segurança do Paciente; Simulação clínica.
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Keywords: Non-Technical Skills; Education, Nursing; Patient Safety; Simulation Training.
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Abstract: Non-technical skills (NTS) play a structural role in the quality and safety of nursing care, encompassing dimensions such as communication, teamwork, situational awareness, decision-making, and leadership. Scientific evidence demonstrates that failures in these competencies are frequently associated with adverse events, often surpassing purely technical errors. Despite strong conceptual robustness and international consensus regarding their relevance, the integration of NTS into undergraduate nursing education remains frequently implicit, fragmented, and dependent on individual faculty initiative. The literature reveals convergence in defining the core domains of NTS but highlights weaknesses in their curricular operationalization, particularly regarding longitudinal integration and structured assessment. Clinical simulation emerges as a privileged pedagogical strategy for their development, complemented by experiential methodologies such as virtual patients, structured debriefing, and collaborative learning. However, the effectiveness of these approaches depends on their coherent and sustained articulation throughout the educational trajectory. Assessment represents the most vulnerable aspect of NTS integration, marked by the absence of instruments specifically validated for nursing students and by the predominance of self-assessment, which compromises objectivity and longitudinal monitoring. Additional curricular, institutional, and cultural barriers perpetuate the centrality of technical competencies at the expense of relational and decisional skills. In light of the available evidence, a paradigmatic reconfiguration of curricular architecture is required, grounded in the explicit, longitudinal, and assessable integration of NTS, supported by formal curriculum mapping, multimodal assessment, and faculty pedagogical development. This transition constitutes not only a pedagogical imperative but also an ethical responsibility, given the direct impact of NTS on patient safety. Integrating these competencies into the curriculum does not represent a humanistic add-on; rather, it strengthens the clinical dimension of nursing practice itself.
- Cláudia Jorge de Sousa Oliveira
- Tânia Filipa Cabrita Xavier