Évaluation d'un programme de formation en administration des services de soins infirmiers : le cas du Sénégal

All over the world providing a solid education to nurses is a necessity. In order to face the changes, a lot of countries are conceiving postgraduate programs. Around the world, training in management of nursing managers has become a necessity. To provide nursing leaders abilities to cope with change, many countries have developed training graduate programs in educational administration for the nursing services.  Several programs that are being developed in this direction are more or less valued. Several authors believe that evaluation of these programs would better appreciate the achievement of educational goals and ultimately, improve training and management practices. To contribute to the development of new skills that will surely meet the training needs and assist in real change, we propose to make this study which aims to evaluate the training program administration and teaching of the National School of Health and Social Development (ENDSS) of Senegal. This assessment takes into account the views of graduates, teachers, program designers and directions of hospitals. This is a retrospective evaluation research type. A questionnaire survey and interview was conducted with graduates, teachers, program designers and management head of the hospitals. Also, databases of students graduating between 2003 and 2009 were consulted to collect the scores on the certification exam, the number of admission and enrollment and demographic information. This assessment focuses on the major components of the training program Administration and teaching of ENDSS are evaluated through the systemic model of evaluation of educational program of Stufflebeam commonly known as CIPP model, which is retained as the reference of this study.  The results of the analysis based on 70 questionnaires and 37 interviews. In order to answer the research questions, the data are analyzed and interpreted using indicators and according to defined criteria. The process of analyzing the results was carried out in three stages. First, data from questionnaires and interviews provided by graduates, teachers and program designers are analyzed as well as the academic record of students enrolled in the program. Second, the review focused on questionnaire data collected from directions of hospitals. Finally, the opinions of all respondents on improvements to the program are analyzed to account for their recommendations thereon. Throughout the analysis of results, data from questionnaires and interviews are presented at a time. The verdict on the effectiveness of the training program Administration and teaching of ENDSS is determined by analysis of indicators related to four types of evaluation proposed by Stufflebeam (1981). Graduates and program designers believe that training is adequate for the exercise of the functions of head of nursing services. Consistency between the concepts of the module Management of health services and the exercise of the function of chief of nursing services is considered stronger in respect to several notions, by graduates, teachers and program designers. Graduates, as well as teachers believe in the majority, provided that supervision is inadequate. More than half of graduates and a majority of program designers believe that the material and didactic resources in the library do not facilitate learning the matter. However, students do well in their school leaving examination, particularly in the last four years reviewed. Teachers, graduates and program designers are satisfied with the training program Administration and teaching of ENDSS. Directions of hospitals are shared on the idea that students are prepared for function of chief of nursing services. In addition, as most of the directions of hospitals is not responding to the strategy of the hospital reform. They unanimously say that they were not involved in the process of developing the program and agree that, in general, the training received by the head of nursing services is quality. Unanimously, the directions of hospitals felt that the concepts should be added or improved in the training program administration and teaching-ENDSS. Interpretation of the data reveals the complexity surrounding the importance of balancing the number of hours to devote to the theory and practice in a training program. In addition, results on knowledge gain express a high need for development of further education or the content of notions Health Information System and Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Management, Program elaboration and Hospital administration. An appropriate choice of land where the student could achieve the learning objectives, a selection of the appropriate period for the course, and a signifier coaching, would be a profitable course for the student. We believe that this research has opened avenues for research perspectives related to professional development of future leaders of the nursing department.  Keywords: Program evaluation, acquisition of knowledge, development of the competence-nursing management-master degree formation program.

Keyphrases: Program evaluation, Acquisition of knowledge, Development of the competence, Nursing management, Master degree formation program