ACTUALIZACIÓN DEL PROGRAMA DE ORIENTACIÓN PARA ENFERMEROS DE LA UNIDAD DE PACIENTE CRÍTICO ADULTO DEL HOSPITAL REGIONAL DE TALCA (CHILE)

The Dr. César Garavagno Burotto Hospital, also called the Regional Hospital of Talca (RHT), in 2010 began the construction of the new facilities, managing to triple the staff, reaching 1,468 positions and 645 beds⁽¹⁾, increasing the complexity of critical patient care, becoming a reference center for the VI and VII regions in renal transplantation and neurosurgery. These changes go hand in hand with the need for new nurses to be hired, who must go through an institutional clinical orientation process that does not meet the standards required for said process. The main objective of this project is to update the institutional orientation program for nurses in the critical adult patient unit (CAPU) of the RHT, incorporating clinical mentoring and evaluation guidelines, resulting in an evidence-based program with clear goals, objective clinical evaluation, adjusted to the local reality and encouraging critical analysis. Methodology: using the Delphi method, surveys are carried out on officials with 5 or more years of experience in the CAPU RHT to determine what are the clinical competencies that the novice nurse should acquire according to the subunit in which they develop, this result is complemented with local epidemiological information of the most common pathologies in said unit, the information is tabulated and a rubric is made with learning results, which will be evaluated in the clinical mentoring program.