Abstract
To analyze nursing education in the Technical Schools of the Unified Health System in the Northeastern region of Brazil. A documentary study with a qualitative approach, having its locus as Technical Schools of the Unified Health System in the Northeast Region which offer the technical course in nursing. Data sources were the Pedagogical Political Projects of the school and the Teaching Plans of the referred courses, and three structured scripts on the pedagogical aspects of training were used as instruments. The systematization/data analysis was based on thematic content analysis. Technical training in nursing occurs through: an integrative approach, being considered a pedagogical trend; problematizing approach, used as a methodological way for teaching-learning; and qualitative assessment, enhancing the scope of professional skills. The training in focus points to the commitment to the Unified Health System and professional excellence, as it strengthens the integration between teaching-service-community, encourages student proactivity and indicates teaching-learning in the demands of the population and the public health system, and enhances the acquiring and improving professional skills.
Highlights
Nursing technical education enables the development of competences and skills in order to train professionals prepared to act on the health needs of the population[1,2]
The first SUS Technical Schools (ETSUS) were created in the 1980s, constituting public institutions which aimed to a priori qualify/train the health workers of the secondary or middle level employed in SUS, having their principles and directives as the guidelines for the Teaching Plans
This study showed that nursing education in the ETSUS is based on the integrative approach, considered a pedagogical trend and problematizing approach, which consists of the methodological path to favor the teaching-learning process; and the qualitative evaluation, enhancing the scope of professional skills
Summary
Nursing technical education enables the development of competences and skills in order to train professionals prepared to act on the health needs of the population[1,2] In this sense, it is evident that such training should meet the principles of the Unified Health System (SUS), with a view to being an appropriate and quality response to the demands which are presented. There are currently 40 schools distributed in all states of the federation, and the Northeast in particular has 12 ETSUS, of which six offer technical nursing education, which justifies the fact that this region has the largest offer of this course Such schools play a strategic role in health education and for the Brazilian health system, as they assure incorporating the needs of the population into their educational processes and the principles of SUS in their pedagogical documents[4]
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