Significados da formação num currículo com ênfase em saúde pública para o/a estudante de enfermagem

Abstract

This research aimed to understand the meanings of education, with emphasis on public health to nursing students. Motivated by my worries, while nurse-teacher, I looked at the qualitative approach of Maurice Merleau-Ponty phenomenology as a theoretical and philosophical support and in Paul Ricoeur phenomenologicalhermeneutics, the necessary support to the organization of empirical data. To meet our objective we interviewed 13 students, between December 2009 and March 2010. The meanings of training, in a curriculum with a public health emphasis, have emerged of how each student is facing this experience in nursing. Thus, in this study, the themes and sub-themes were revealed from the meeting with one another, as follows: Self-perception as a nurse and Perception of the training (care in the spaces of healing and in the areas of prevention). The search for the meaning of training the student brought the visibility of large gaps: a) lack of joint training strategies. b) Interaction of an integrated education, intending in the end, train nurses to meet the needs of the population; to insert in their care practices conceptions of the Brazilian health system. Strengthening in this way the national policies on health care. Without professionals who know and understand these policies, we always keep the fragmentation of care, leaving out the articulating role of the system: the comprehensive care.