A Articulação das políticas de educação e de saúde na voz de egressos: análise da formação de enfermeiros, em Dourados - MS

Abstract

The general aim of this project is to analyze the relationship between policies and health education in nursing training, in Dourados-MS, from the evaluation of former students. To understand this issue, we sought answers from the nursing students who graduated in the “Universidade Estadual do Mato Grosso do Sul”, trained by two different models of curriculum, the one of 1998 and the other of 2004, which, respectively, were drawn from the current law curriculum at the time. This is a qualitative research, conducted by the literature review, document analysis, field research through the use of questionnaires and focus groups. From a neo institutionalist perspective, the former students are key players in the political arena as articulators of public educational policies at the micro level, concerning the internal policies of public higher education institutions, and macro-level, since they constitute a professional working group. The results demonstrate that the analyzed nursing program sought to adapt the course to the Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree in Nursing. For the former students, today’s curriculum is noteworthy by the completeness and by the supervised training. However, the former students expressed difficulties regarding to the innovative pedagogical issues suggested by the National Curriculum Guidelines, demonstrating the need for the continuous debate about it among students, teachers and institutions which are partners of the University. Mostly of the former students’ testimonies demonstrated the ignorance they have about the confluence of policies on education and health in their training process, even with their subsequent integration into the world of work. It is believed that the actions of collective health, according to the ideals of the Constitution of 1988, of extending public social services to a greater number of Brazilians, with quality and impact on public health system are the foundations for the nursing education.