title: [Training of the auxiliary personnel].
abstract: The writer highlights the essential role played by auxiliary nursing staff in health services. She stresses the need that such staff be trained in well-organized programs that include learning experience that prepare the student for real-life situations that will be encountered on the job. She cites the advantages of employing auxiliaries, who increase the productivity of the health system and release higher-level personnel for more demanding tasks. She also refers to the importance of competent supervision capable of stimulating auxiliaries to occupational self-improvement. Finally, she outlines a series of strategies for the future training of nursing auxiliaries in Latin America.
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000193:education*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000592:standards; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards
vernacular_title: Formación del personal auxiliar.