Abstract
This paper aims to present a profile of students registered in the Professional Training Courses for Nursing Auxiliaries and Complementation Courses for Nursing Technicians of the Nursing Worker Professionalization Project - PROFAE. This quantitative study was carried out in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 2004 to January 2005, through the application of 1,400 questionnaires. Data analysis used descriptive statistics, with simple frequencies and percentages. After tabulation, data were divided in the following categories: sociodemographic data, educational background, family profile, habits, professional activity, salary range, expectations about PROFAE and nursing, difficulties to participate in the project and the teaching-learning process. Students/workers graduated from the PROFAE program tend to improve the quality of hospital and outpatient care, contributing to labor market dynamics in the health sector.
Highlights
Human resource training constitutes the basis for the realization of health actions and services, and the Nursing Work Professionalization Project (PROFAE) is a professional qualification strategy that strengthens health education as part of a public policy.The implementation of innovative pedagogical experiences like the Large Scale Project, created in 1981 to integrate the health and education sector, brought the question of professional training into the work space, but was not able to attend to the entire workforce demand(1)
This paper aims to present a profile of students registered in the Professional Training Courses for Nursing Auxiliaries and Complementation Courses for Nursing Technicians of the Nursing Worker Professionalization Project PROFAE
In 2000, UNESCO established a technical cooperation project with the Brazilian Health Ministry to carry out the PROFAE
Summary
Human resource training constitutes the basis for the realization of health actions and services, and the Nursing Work Professionalization Project (PROFAE) is a professional qualification strategy that strengthens health education as part of a public policy. The implementation of innovative pedagogical experiences like the Large Scale Project, created in 1981 to integrate the health and education sector, brought the question of professional training into the work space, but was not able to attend to the entire workforce demand(1). The development objective of this cooperation was to improve the quality of hospital and outpatient care in Brazil, creating conditions for the sustainability of auxiliary nursing staff training mechanisms(2). In Brazil, there is a chronic lack of qualified technical professionals, which entails a risk for health care delivery to a majority of the population(1). Job offers for nursing technicians were restricted, leading to the use of a non-qualified workforce without specific training
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