Formação do enfermeiro para atuação docente de nível médio em enfermagem

Abstract

Lately, it can be noticed that many schools allow nurses without adequate training technical competence in teaching classes to teach in technical Nursing courses. This fact triggered the questions: is the nurse able to teach the professional training of medium level, based only on the knowledge acquired and developed at graduation? Would it be necessary aid training, specialization so as to improve theoretical and practical basement and achieve a better performance? Thus, aiming to identify the existence of disciplines related to teacher training in the curricula of Nursing in Minas Gerais State, a primary study descriptive, exploratory and transversal was made. The population was composed of the curricula of Nursing of 108 Higher Education Institutions (IES) of the State of Minas Gerais registered in Regulation System of Higher Education, available online from October to November 2011. The sample included 66 IES that provided the required information, from which 58 had education-related disciplines. There was an analysis of variables related to the subjects "Health Education" and similar related to the instrumentation of the nurseto teach a middle level professional, especially in the nursing area, syllabus theory and practice workload. Most IES had subjects related to education: 27.6% provided the discipline of Health Education, 56.9% only related disciplines and 15.0% had a course in Health Education and other related disciplines. The number of credits of the subjects were not analyzed because most resumes did not provide such information, 50.0% of subjects had a workload of 30 to 60 hours / class, 69% contained only the total hours and 31.0% had hours theoretical or theoretical and practical, 83.4% had no menu available. In 14.3% out of 16.2% of subjects with menu there was consistency between the menu and the proposed syllabus of the discipline. The results may support regulatory agencies in recommendations for hiring professionals with appropriate profile to work in teaching the middle level professional nursing, and support IES in programming recommendations, modifications and revisions of the curricula of Nursing.