Nursing Graduation Course Research Articles

Teaching the aging process and old age in nursing graduation courses

This study aimed at unfolding how the teaching on the aging process and old age takes place in nursing undergraduate programs. Data were obtained by means of a questionnaire, which was completed by coordinators of the five existing nursing programs in the state of Ceará. Its theme is the content of a specific course in the program. Different techniques and strategies were used in order to learn what students' interests were and so to reach a better outcome in the teaching-learning situation. Students found such discussions relevant because these made them better prepared for entering a promising labor field; they stressed the high importance the discussions on that theme would have in other courses as well, aiming at providing a sound knowledge basis and at reaching excellence in patient care. We found that the courses surveyed try to raise interest in this knowledge field, promoting several opportunities for study and practice, and providing a new way to make opinions meet about growing old and old age.

Focus Group as a Method of Data Collection in Nursing Research: An Experiential Report

This article reports an experience with the focus group as a method of data collection in nursing research. Five discussion/reflection meetings were carried out having sexuality in nursing care practice as the central focus, with a group of seven students in the Nursing Graduation Course of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), in August and September 2001. It has been described here the motivation and the justification for the use of this technique; the organization of the group meetings; a synthesis of each one and its final evaluation.

From bricks to bytes: faculty and student perspectives of online graduate nursing courses.

Four courses in an existing graduate primary care program were transformed and offered via interactive television with an online component. Data were collected from students taking any 1 of the 4 graduate nursing courses and from faculty teaching online to understand better the experiences associated with technology-based education. An online evaluation tool, the standard School of Nursing evaluation tool, and 2 focus groups-one a convenient sample of students from these 4 classes and the second a group of faculty engaged in online teaching-were all used for data collection. The primary advantages and disadvantages from both the student and the faculty perspective are described. Important considerations for initiation of online course work are included.

THE USE OF CLASSIFICATIONS lN THE PRACTICE AND TEACHING OF NURSING: THE EXPERIENCE OF UNICAMP

One of the major aspects of Nursing Process used in nursing graduation courses is Nursing Diagnosis according to North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA). We've experienced the implementation of systematic nursing care in a school hospital at Campinas, Brazil since nearly one decade. During this time we could evaluate the teaching process as well as searched for data concerning nursing care provided there. We notice that nursing students state the importance of nursing diagnosis and its practical application. Among nursing staff, the classification of nursing practice and diagnosis taxonomy are worth wile, although they find difficulties in stablishing an accurated diagnosis, and evaluation/assessment of nursing care provided. We consider that there is an increasing motivation in using diagnosis; nevertheless, several challenges are to be overcome toward a better clinical reasoning, diagnosis accuracy and refinement of the diagnosis already used in a common basis.

Nursing training in Brazil in the 1970's

The objective of this study is to revisit the period of time between 1975 and 1979, and, within it, the history of the implantation of nursing graduation courses in federal universities and in geo-educational districts. It presents the development of a project called Projeto de Enfermagem no Grupo Setorial de Saúde--(Nursing Project in Health) SESU/DAU/MEC (ministry of culture and education), and points out the social and political determinants of the, so planned, qualitative and quantitative development of the courses mentioned before. The research clarifies the proposal, process and accomplishments of the Superior Nursing Project of Education, which was predominantly private until 1974 and became predominantly public from 1976 on. Furthermore, it also indicates implications such as: the Commission of Nursing Education Specialists (CEEEnfermagem), which was linked to ABEn and was the first collective proposal of Areas and Lines of Research in Nursing (CNPq/CAPES/DAU/ABEn); as well as the introduction of institutionalized study fields in the academic institutions.

O tom do cuidado de enfermagem para alunos de graduação

Although care is pointed as the essence of the nursing profession, there is a lack of discussion on its meaning in the nursing education. The objective of this study is to identify the meaning of care for graduate students aiming at contributing to a more contextualized teaching. In order to guide the study, we used the concepts of affiliation and membership notion from ethnomethodology. The subjects were students from a state nursing graduation course in Rio de Janeiro. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews taken after group dynamics which objective was to apprehend the way students described care until that moment in their nursing course. We concluded that as students become more involved with nursing they incorporate concepts that contribute to reinforce or to transform their previous experiences and experiences acquired during the graduation course. Therefore, concepts and behaviors are apprehended and reproduced by students as components of their professional identity.

Interdisciplinary integration in nursing teaching and learning: our experience

In 1996, a group of professors of the areas of Immunology, Histology, Nutrition, Pathology and Foundations of Nursing, began the Educational Project with the Support Program to Integrated Projects of Education and Health Services (PAPIENS), in the Nursing graduation course of the State University of Londrina. This Program is inserted in the project UNI subsidized by the Kellogg Foundation, which has propitiated innovations in the teaching-learning process, as well as changes in the curriculum of courses in the health area of the university mentioned before. This project has as its linking content the subject wounds. The main objective is to propitiate to students the construction of knowledge, regarding this theme, through the articulation and integration of the different areas involved, as well as through the observation of patients who carry wounds. It was observed that the project has facilitated student's learning and also prepared teachers for the challenge of the Nursing Integrated Curriculum to be implemented in the year 2000.

Computer conferencing in graduate nursing education: perceptions of students and faculty.

The authors report the perceptions of students and faculty who participated in a computer conferenced (CC) graduate course in nursing. Ten graduate students and three faculty members completed a course evaluation form, which included items about learning, interaction, environment, technical support, and satisfaction with CC. Responses indicated the CC medium offered a creative and flexible alternative for learning. Course participants perceived benefits such as enriched learning, meaningful interactions, opportunities for reflection, satisfaction with the technology, and the convenience of learning from a distance. These results have implications for facilitating continuing education.

Obstetric nursing in prenatal consultation

This study consists of a report about a research project which started in August, 1997. The project involved teachers from the maternal-paediatrics department with Faculdade de Enfermagem--UERJ (Nursing Faculty with State University of Rio de Janeiro) and professionals from the municipal health center in Rio de Janeiro--SMS/RJ. The introduction of prenatal nursing consultation as a new subject in the nursing graduation course, as well as its formation, and implementation in the referred municipal health center is reported in this paper. This study also proposes a review of the current biomedical consultation model, in order to motivate reflection, break paradigms, and increase the prenatal consultation process in Rio de Janeiro.

Teaching of nursing administration: the nurses' experience

The purpose of this study was to disclose the nurses comprehension about the Nursing Administration discipline taught in the Nursing graduation course of the Nursing School of São Paulo University. We have followed the phenomenology as the methodological way, and MARTINS; BICUDO were taken as the basic authors and main axis of the research. Being guided by this referencial, we have done this study together with eight nurses and we could do a description and comprehension speeches trying to bring out the meaning of what was understood about their phenomenon studied. From the phenomenological analysis of the nurses' reports appeared the possibilities an limits of the teaching of this discipline.

Creating an integrated nursing curriculum

During the last two decades, Brazilian society has gone through great changes into political, ideological and economical fields. These changes left their strings into society, specially in population health. The nurse formation based on the Law n(o) 5540/68 and on the Statement n(o) 163/72, no more meets population demands. Since 1992, the Nursing Faculty of UERJ-FEUerj intensifies the reflection movement upon teaching-learning process searching for transforming its own reality. The making of this project presents two complementary and important reasons: FEUerj docents and discents' desire in elaborating a curriculum which searches for nurses' formation that articulates teaching-work-community, theory and practice, based on a Critical Theory of Education, on the line of PROBLEMATIZATION, and the accomplishment of Statement n(o) 314/94 from the CFE and from the Letter of Order MEC n(o) 1171/15/dez/94. From debating, the professional profile has been defined from the social environment where the profession is performed and the alumnate's characteristics; area determination or group of attributions, according to professional praxis adequation, concept hierachization, processes, etc., which in the process of 'classification and syntheses' of knowledge results into a netlike chained and related tree. In the first phase of the curriculum study, it has diagnosed as principal condition, the actual curriculum 'DECONTEXTUALIZATION' and the 'US' to be faced to lead it to an end the Curriculum Reformulation Proposal. The Process of Pedagogical Abilitation for professors, workshops, researches on the desirable and present profile, seminars, performance, abilities and principles systematization, identification of areas which compose the integrated curriculum, subjects localization into areas and articulation between professional subjects and other activities, has been implemented. Based on this work on the problematized pedagogy first step, an instrument 'Research on the Professional Profile for the Nursing Graduation Course', was built, identifying the performances and principles which sustain them on each subject making the present profile clear and desirable to docents and discents.

O ensino de reabilitação: expectativas de estudantes de enfermagem

This article shows the nursing student's expetance about rehabilitation teaching during nursing graduation course, 8th semester students and 2nd semester of nursing graduation course answer a specific questionnaire for each grup and they show spectatives characterizing a proposal for the nursing rehabilitation teaching.

Teaching communication in the nursing graduation course at the nursing school of the Minas Gerais Federal University

Facing the importance of the communication in all nursing activities, in this paper the authors try to verify how has been occurring the teaching-learning process related to the communication subject during the undergraduate nursing course in the Nursing School at Federal University of Minas Gerais. The data were collected by interviewing professors and students from the undergraduate course. The results showed that the basic problem in this process is not "what" to teach but "how" to teach the subject.

Including Gerontological Nursing in Graduate Nursing Curriculum

Nursing programs must structure programs so that more nurses will choose to work with older adults. Whether gerontological nursing is incorporated into a clinical major at the graduate level depends on the philosophy of the program. Some programs offer a major in gerontological nursing, others may allow students to subspecialize, or all students may be exposed to content on the older adult. The objectives of the graduate course in gerontological nursing is to prepare students to meet the highly specialized health-care needs of older adults.

A imagem da enfermeira e do enfermeiro percebida por alunos ingressantes no curso de graduação

Estudo realizado com o objetivo geral de verificar a imagem da(o) enfermeira(o) percebida pelos alunos ingressantes no Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem de Duas Escolas da Cidade de São Paulo. Utilizou-se na metodologia o Diferencial Semântico de Osgood, validado por Lane no Brasil, além de um questionário que possibilitou uma melhor caracterização da imagem percebida pelos estudantes. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que os alunos atribuíram significados diferentes para as palavras enfermeira e enfermeiro, somente para um dos fatores estudados (Agilidade), além de considerarem a imagem profissional como positiva, qualificada principalmente por características humanitárias e de competência.

Legislation of undergraduate nursing education

É por via da legislação que se criam ou se extinguem não só direitos e deveres, mas as próprias instituições. Daí a importância de ccnhecê-la, mormente quando se trata da legislação da própria profissão. Além disso, o Código Civil e o Código Penal brasileiros dispõem que a ignorância ou a errada compreensão da lei não constituem alegações excusáveis quando se trata de cumprir a lei. A autora analisa a evolução histórica da legislação no campo do ensino em nível de graduação e sobre alguns aspectos dos cursos de pós-graduação em enfermagem. Descreve a situação atual do curso de enfermagem geral, de acordo com o Parecer do Conselho Federal de Educação n.° 163/72, e sugere a criação de habilitações também na área de Enfermagem Pediátrica e Psiquiátrica.