Abstract
to know the organizational and pedagogical characteristics of vocational courses in nursing of Unified Health System Vocational Schools in northeastern Brazil. this is a qualitative, descriptive study, developed in six schools that offer this course. As a data source, Pedagogical Political Project and Teaching Plans were used to search for information on courses' organizational and pedagogical characteristics through indirect documentation, using three structured scripts. most of the characteristics of the courses are convergent between schools, but pedagogical characterization items do not exist, presenting themselves as fragility regarding the outline of such normative characteristics. the characterization of the courses demonstrates the schools' commitment to training professionals aiming at quality of healthcare/nursing in/for the Unified Health System. However, the weakness found in the documents emerged as a challenge to be overcome, in order to better subsidize teaching and learning and qualify training.
Highlights
Vocational training in nursing aims to provide students with essential knowledge and professional skills to professional practice and citizenship, considering the performance of the current demands of the Brazilian public health system, the Unified Health System (SUS – Sistema Único de Saúde), and the population’s health needs regarding promotion, prevention, recovery and rehabilitation of health-disease processes[1,2].In the 1980s, in the context of strategies to deal with the disarticulation of the education and health sectors with a view to training for SUS, SUS Vocational Schools (ETSUS - Escolas Técnicas do SUS) were created
Brazil currently has 40 ETSUS that make up the SUS Vocational Schools network, established by Ordinance 1,298/2000, which, among other objectives, intends to disseminate methodologies and technological resources aimed at improving teaching, research and vocational cooperation activities, so that it presents itself as a strategy for building knowledge in Health Professional Education
It is worth noting the fact that at ETSUS1 only the management staff shared the process of building Pedagogical Political Project (PPP), while the external community participation, represented by the family, occurred exclusively at ETSUS3
Summary
In the 1980s, in the context of strategies to deal with the disarticulation of the education and health sectors with a view to training for SUS, SUS Vocational Schools (ETSUS - Escolas Técnicas do SUS) were created Such public institutions aimed, a priori, to qualify mid-level or elementary-level health workers employed in the Brazilian health system, having their principles and guidelines as guiding axes of the teaching plans. A priori, to qualify mid-level or elementary-level health workers employed in the Brazilian health system, having their principles and guidelines as guiding axes of the teaching plans They are configured as a reference in Brazil for health workers’ training, qualification, (re) professionalization and updating, playing a significant role in professional practice reorientation and qualification[3]. The Northeast Region, in particular, has 12 schools, of which six offer vocational training in nursing, which characterizes it as the region that, numerically, offers this course more than the others[4]
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