Abstract
To identify the contribution of the problematization methodology in primary healthcare teaching in a nursing undergraduate course. Documentary, descriptive and qualitative study, carried out with undergraduate students from the Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing at the University of São Paulo. Data were collected through analysis documents which consisted of 21 evaluation forms filled out by first-year undergraduate students in the 2013 school year taking the subject Comprehensive Health Care I, whose theoretical framework was focused on primary health care. It was found that the subject met the intended goals, allowed coordination between theory and practice, and enabled the contact of undergraduate students with the profession and work environment in the beginning of the course. Analysis of the evaluation forms for the subject Comprehensive Health Care I evidenced that the use of the problematization methodology favored primary healthcare teaching.
Highlights
The Unified Health System (SUS, as per its acronym in Portuguese), the public health system in force for the past 25 years in Brazil, is still in organization and implementation process
The network was designed to favor the strengthening of primary health care (PHC), a branch of medical care which aims to meet the health needs of assisted populations according to local realities
The National Curricular Guidelines for nursing courses point to the qualification of nurses in consonance with a professional profile including a sense of social responsibility and of promoting comprehensive health to human beings
Summary
The Unified Health System (SUS, as per its acronym in Portuguese), the public health system in force for the past 25 years in Brazil, is still in organization and implementation process. The National Curricular Guidelines for nursing courses point to the qualification of nurses in consonance with a professional profile including a sense of social responsibility and of promoting comprehensive health to human beings. To achieve this target, nursing schools have to include skills such as decision-making, communication, leadership and management and education in the health field in their curriculum and active learning methodologies (ALM) in their teaching strategies[1]. Methodologies used as an alternative teaching method are grouped in a category named problematization methodology (PM) In this case, the contents built by students must be adapted to their previous cognitive structure, so they can find relationships, laws or concepts necessary for their learning[3,4]
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