Percepção dos acadêmicos de enfermagem frente ao processo ensino aprendizagem da educação em saúde

Abstract

Nowadays, education provides new directions and perspectives. It is understood as a social, popular, broad and complex process. And health education has also been following this new vision of social transformation. As an item of health promotion, health education is considered an important action concerning the living conditions and health of a given population. It should be performed in an independent and transformative way, including all subjects of the process. This work is an integrative review on the perception of nursing students about health education. It was used for the search, the descriptors health education, nursing students and perception, combined with each other in the databases LILACS, MEDLINE and SCIELO. The criteria for inclusion were defined as scientific publications from 2004 to 2011, available in full in three databases, in Portuguese, Spanish and English and to address the students' perceptions from the graduate course of nursing about education on health. It is noticed that most of the nursing students still consider health education as a traditional process, of guidance of the population, and it may reach its goals. Meanwhile some scholars refer to health education as a whole, in a modern and reflexive way. Therefore, it is essential the changing in the curricula of professional education, modification of the process teaching-learning of students, teachers trainings, besides involving in the process servicecommunity- professionals so as to qualify the education of the future nurses, making them social educators and reflexive of their actions.