Nursing Teaching Strategies by Encouraging Students’ Questioning, Argumentation and Explanation

Nursing students need to develop competences in the field of explanation, argumentation and questioning as they are pivotal to foster a relationship with their patients and achieve a greater humanisation of care. The objective of this paper is to analyse the perception of 1st-year nursing students with regard to the humanisation of care provided to patients by encouraging them to discuss real-life episodes. The study is qualitative and content analysis used the students’ questions, explanations and argumentation as core discourses. Among other conclusions, results point towards the importance of promoting activities that encourage the different nursing students’ discourses and the ability to understand the humanisation and dehumanisation patterns arising from the real-life episodes used as case study.

Planning nursing teaching: Educational purposes and clinical competence

Thinking about nursing education implies articulating this issue with the expressions of theoretical frameworks, from the perspective of a pedagogical aspect that includes both constructivism and competencies. The objective was to characterize, from a longitudinal view, the construction of care competencies that exist in the teaching plans of nursing undergraduate programs. This exploratory-descriptive study used a qualitative approach. Documentary analysis was performed on the nine teaching plans of undergraduate care subjects. The ethical-legal aspects were guaranteed, so that data was collected only after the study had been approved by the Research Ethics Committee. The data evidenced a curriculum organization centered on subjects, maintaining internal rationales that seem to resist summative organizations. Signs emerge of hardly substantial links between any previous knowledge and the strengthening of critical judgment and clinical reasoning. As proposed, the study contributed with reconsiderations for the teachinglearning process and showed the influence of constructivism on the proposal of clinical competencies.

Comparing the Teaching-Learning Process With and Without the Use of Computerized Technological Resources

Computerized technological resources have become essential in education, particularly for teaching topics that require the performance of specific tasks. These resources can effectively help the execution of such tasks and the teaching-learning process itself. After the development of a Web site on the topic of nursing staff scheduling, this study aimed at comparing the development of students involved in the teaching-learning process of the previously mentioned topic, with and without the use of computer technology. Two random groups of undergraduate nursing students from a public university in São Paulo state, Brazil, were organized: a case group (used the Web site) and a control group (did not use the Web site). Data were collected from 2003 to 2005 after approval by the Research Ethics Committee. Results showed no significant difference in motivation or knowledge acquisition. A similar performance for the two groups was also verified. Other aspects observed were difficulty in doing the nursing staff scheduling exercise and the students' acknowledgment of the topic's importance for their training and professional lives; easy access was considered to be a positive aspect for maintaining the Web site.

Teaching Tuberculosis Content: Web-Based Resources for Nurse Educators

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health concern with one-third of the world’s population infected. With the goal of eliminating TB, a component of appropriate management of the disease is ensuring baccalaureate nursing students receive current and consistent TB education. [See PDF for complete abstract]

Spirituality in the Undergraduate Curricula of Nursing Schools in Portugal and São Paulo-Brazil

Spirituality is considered a dimension of nursing care, which is often recognized as being neglected, mainly due to a lack of education. Several studies have addressed nursing students’ perceptions and skills for providing spiritual care, but there is little evidence on how spirituality is addressed in undergraduate nursing curricula. This study comprised Portuguese and Brazilian nursing schools (from São Paulo) and describes how spirituality is addressed in undergraduate nursing curricula. It is descriptive and the survey research was performed in 2014–2015. The questionnaire was composed of closed and open-ended questions and was sent by e-mail. A total of 129 answers were obtained, mostly from Portugal. Results indicated that several curricular units include spirituality, although having different contents. The learning outcomes are consistent with improving nursing students’ integral education, developing the clinical reasoning regarding spirituality, and improving the assessment of the patient across the life span. Nevertheless, it seems that spirituality is poorly addressed in clinical practice. Few nursing schools have courses or curricular units specifically dealing with spirituality, but they do provide some form of teaching on the subject. No standard curriculum exists, but teachers believe that it is a very important subject that should be included in the courses taught.

Conhecendo egressos do curso técnico de Enfermagem do PROFAE

O PROFAE (Projeto de Profissionalização dos Trabalhadores da Área de Enfermagem) foi uma iniciativa importante na educação profissional. Os objetivos do estudo foram descrever o perfil dos egressos do curso de técnico de enfermagem dos centros de formação da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo e conhecer os reflexos do curso para a atuação na profissão e a mobilidade no mercado de trabalho. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de questionário respondido por 216 egressos e por quatro grupos focais com egressos e enfermeiros supervisores. Os respondentes foram, em sua maioria, mulheres com média de 42,2 anos. O curso foi bem avaliado, destacando-se o apoio institucional e as resoluções do Conselho Regional de Enfermagem (COREN) como impulsionadores da procura por ele. Os egressos percebem ter maior iniciativa e preparo teórico após o curso. Na área, a função mais exercida atualmente ainda é a de auxiliar de enfermagem, o que gera insatisfação, pois, especialmente nos serviços públicos, não existem cargos de técnicos.

A educação continuada para a enfermagem : motivações e dificuldades

Para a compreensão do fenômeno da educação continuada na docência na graduação de enfermagem, foi desenvolvido um estudo do tipo exploratório-descritivo com abordagem quantitativa em que se buscou estudar as razões que motivam e as dificuldades dos docentes do Curso de Enfermagem da docência do ensino superior da Faculdade Aliança no desenvolvimento de sua educação continuada no município de Teresina-PI. Fizeram parte deste estudo: 24 docentes da citada instituição e com a mesma formação na graduação de enfermagem e tendo a faixa etária entre 25 a 53 anos e todos pertencentes ao curso de graduação de enfermagem, sendo que o instrumento utilizado para produção dos dados foi um questionário, em que 100% dos docentes responderam a este questionário. O mesmo foi construído e fundamentado tendo base no quadro teórico desta pesquisa, seguindo o roteiro previamente estabelecido. Os dados foram analisados e articulados ao referencial teórico a partir dos questionários aplicados nesse estudo. Constatou - se nesta pesquisa que os docentes, têm várias dificuldades na prática ao realizar sua educação continuada. Seja pela falta de tempo, liberação da instituição a qual está vinculada, pela questão financeira e por outros motivos. Portanto, ao concluir este estudo todos os objetivos foram alcançados, e que os docentes de enfermagem tenham subsídios científicos no desenvolvimento do cotidiano de sua vida profissional de modo a valorizar essas ações e reconhecer esse processo como diferencial, priorizando a aquisição de novos conhecimentos, sejam no desenvolvimento de sua educação continuada, permanente através de cursos on-line, pós-graduações (especializações), mestrado, doutorado e pós-doutorado e que possa contribuir para a melhoria de suas ações quando estiverem atuando na docência do ensino superior da graduação de enfermagem quando forem por em prática em suas aulas teóricas e práticas nos hospitais ou clínicas quando forem repassar seus conhecimentos aos seus discentes do curso de graduação de enfermagem.

Articulação ensino/serviço na visão de discentes de enfermagem

It is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach aimed at understanding the impact of the teaching / service between the Nursing College of University of Rio Grande do Norte (FAEN / UERN) and health services in the city of Mossoró / RN on student s learning process. Hence, it was inquired to rescue and over-elaborate the trajectories experienced by students who were graduating in the year of 2009 the Nursing graduation course. It was used, as guidance tool a questionary with both open and objective questions to support the data collection. The data analysis was accomplished based on the precepts proposed by Bardin. The research revealed a clear need of bond establishments with the involvement of the students on services as well as professionals inserted on Academy, in a way that knowledge can be built collectively and the difficulties can be eased.

Ensino do processo de enfermagem: significados percepções docentes na formação do enfermeiro

The implementation of the nursing process should be experienced by all nurses during their formative years. However, the lack of implementation of the nursing process for care planning during the educational process and the existing disorder in the formation process prompted the following research questions: What is the meaning of teaching the nursing process to the nursing professors? Do nursing professors use strategies and methods that promote critical thinking in their students? The objective of the study was to analyze the meaning that teaching of the nursing process has for the nursing faculty of the bachalaureate nursing course. Qualitative descriptive study conducted with a sample of 30 faculty members that taught nursing care courses in the nursing program of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Natal, RN. Two instruments were used, a questionaire and an interview guide. The questionnaire was designed to obtain sociodemographic, educational and work information, of faculty activities and of the teaching of nursing care. The guide was composed of five open questions regarding the understanding and perceptions of the nursing process, its utilization in teaching, and the nursing care teaching strategies. Interview data were submitted to content analysis techniques and interpreted according to the principles of Symbolic Interactionism. Six categories related to the analytical themes were identified: the nursing process as the guide for the care actions; clinical rationality; use of the care activities; teaching relevance; teaching barreirs; teaching strategies with focus on the abilities and competencies of the clinical rationale. Faculty perceptions regarding the teaching of the nursing process; nursing care approach in the nurses‟ formation. The study indicates that the participants understand the relevance of the nursing process a work instrument and that the use of this method during the nurses‟ formation enhances the abilities and competencies for critical thinking that is essencial for care. The strategies for teaching of abilities and competencies were identified, however the nursing faculty should use codes, direction and the influence so that the students can Interact and therefore stimulate the use of the nursing process

Ensino do processo de enfermagem nas escolas de graduação em enfermagem do estado de São Paulo.

The goal of this study was to describe the teaching of the nursing process at undergraduate nursing programs in the state of São Paulo. The sample was formed by 247 faculty members. With respect to the study methodology, authors elaborated a questionnaire that was sent to 899 faculty members from 32 public and private nursing schools in the state of São Paulo. Results showed regarding the teaching of the nursing process that, from the total of 147 faculty members who taught the content, 66 (44.9%) were from 19 private schools and 81 (55.1%) from 8 public schools.

Avaliação em saúde coletiva nos cursos de enfermagem da Cascavel - PR

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Estudo da motilidade gástrica em ratas prunhes diabéticas

Pós-graduação em Biologia Geral e Aplicada - IBB

O Modelo Freireano de educação aplicado ao programa da disciplina prática de ensino de enfermagem

The present study is a qualitative research supported by Paulo Freire's writings. It presents the structure of a discipline-Nursing Teaching Practice-which searches for an amplification of opportunities provided by the Nursing School in order to improve the student's consciousness of his/her role as a future educator.

Saberes dos professores da educação profissional técnica de nível médio em enfermagem

A docência na educação profissional técnica de nível médio em enfermagem é uma das dimensões importantes a ser considerada na qualificação da formação de trabalhadores técnicos, no Brasil. Apesar disso, ela é marcada por fragilidade nos processos formativos, adversas condições de trabalho, incluindo, a precariedade. O objetivo deste estudo é descrever e analisar os saberes dos professores de uma escola privada de educação profissional em enfermagem, no município de Ribeirão Preto, considerando suas vivências na prática pedagógica, a partir de referencial de Tardif (2012). Estudo descritivo-exploratório, qualitativo. A técnica de coleta de dados utilizada foi entrevista semiestruturada com 13 professores, realizadas de novembro de 2014 a fevereiro de 2015. As entrevistas foram analisadas, sendo delineadas categorias de decodificação, a saber: Saberes pessoais dos professores; Saberes provenientes da formação escolar anterior; Saberes provenientes da formação profissional para o magistério, subdivididos em Saberes provenientes da formação profissional para o magistério construídos em cursos de Bacharelado e Licenciatura em Enfermagem e Saberes profissionais para o magistério, construídos nos cursos de especialização latu sensu e programas de capacitação docente; Saberes provenientes dos programas e livros didáticos usados no trabalho dos professores; Saberes provenientes de sua própria experiência na profissão envolvendo atuação nos serviços de saúde e na docência. Esses saberes, no exercício cotidiano do trabalho docente, são articulados e reconstruídos. Eles mostram significativamente as suas relações com a diversidade nas possibilidades de formação, dada a fragilidades das políticas de formação docente, bem como suas relações com as condições concretas de trabalho na educação profissional, sendo ainda significativa a concomitância da docência nessa modalidade de ensino com a prática profissional em serviços de saúde, o que também traz implicações para a conformação dos saberes da docência