Educação Permanente: um instrumento de capacitação dos profissionais de enfermagem

Abstract

Continuing education in nursing can bring a great return for both the professional and for the health service, it aims to update and refine their technical skills. It consists of a pedagogical instrument for working transformation and the ongoing development of employees in individual and collective levels. This study aimed to identify, through a review of national literature, how lifelong learning can contribute to the training of nursing teams. The integrative review methodology was performed in Databases Virtual Health Library (LILACS and BDenf), with the following descriptors: permanent education; continuing education and nursing. The selected studies were the ones which approached to teaching methodology in nursing, in portuguese language andin the period 2009-2013. After careful analysis, ten studies were included as the final sample. Through the presented results, the methodological innovation dominates the current studies, demonstrating pedagogical trends adopted in ongoing nursing education toward the active methodology, highlighting the methodology of problematization. Concludes that the new teaching methods are a challenge, since they require the educator, the selection of teaching strategies that enable the active participation of nursing teams in learning, creating new training situations to keep professional interest, increasing learning opportunities and achieve the objectives of the education proposal.