Abstract
Objective to analyze the production of knowledge resulting from the professional master's degree programs in Nursing and to reflect about their perspectives for the area. Method descriptive and analytical study. Data collected from the dissertations of three educational institutions that graduated students in programs of professional master's degree in Nursing between 2006 and 2012 were included. Results most of the 127 course completion studies analyzed were developed within hospital contexts; there was a focus on the organizational and healthcare areas, in the research fields care process and management, and predominance of qualitative studies. There are various products resulting from the course completion studies: evaluation of services/healthcare programs and development of processes, care or educational protocols. Conclusion the programs of professional master's degree in Nursing, which are undergoing a consolidation stage, have recent production under development and there is a gap in the creation of hard technologies and innovation. They are essential for the development of innovative professional practices that articulate the healthcare and educational areas.
Highlights
The creation of professional master’s degrees covered by Opinion number 977/65 of Newton Sucupira[1], which guided the development of the Brazilian postgraduate courses, was already considered a way of qualifying professionals for the workforce
The first program in the Nursing area has been conducted by the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), this was not included in this study, since it had a single group and ended its activities in 2004
The data show a convergence between what has been produced in the programs of professional master’s degree in Nursing and the legislation, which is understandable taking into account what the object of study in these programs is, that is, the search for answers to the problems related to the professional practice, in the sense of investigating it, and changing it
Summary
The creation of professional master’s degrees covered by Opinion number 977/65 of Newton Sucupira[1], which guided the development of the Brazilian postgraduate courses, was already considered a way of qualifying professionals for the workforce. Defined as a type of stricto sensu post-graduation, Section 3 of Rule number 17/2009(3) clarifies that this level of graduation is intended to qualify professionals for the “advanced practice, changing of applied procedures and processes, through the incorporation of the scientific method...”. Another highlight is the expectation that the professional develops innovative methods aimed at solving specific problems. It is showed in the Post-graduation National Plan 2011-2020(4) that these programs should be clear about their particularities and that they “should not be considered, not designed, as a graduation lower than those of academic master’s degrees and should be evaluated with help of specific parameters and supported within the grant system”
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