Nursing education: contradictions and challenges of pedagogical practice.

Full Abstract

This study deals with the nursing curriculum, pedagogical practice and education. Nowadays, this theme has taken up considerable space in academic debates. Thus, this study aimed to get empirical knowledge and provide an analytical description of the academic reality of nursing education at Santa Cruz State University in the undergraduate nursing course. This is a descriptive study, which may provide a new view of the problem, with careful observation, description, and exploration of the situation aspects, interpreting the reality, without interfering in it and, consequently, being open to new studies. Descriptive statistics with simple frequency and percentage calculation was applied. In summary, results indicate that professors and students have difficulties to evaluate the curriculum. In addition, the curriculum under study is characterized as a collection curriculum, with a pedagogical practice predominantly directed at the traditional model. Hence, nursing education still shows features of the biomedical-technical model.

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Author information

Author/s: Pinto, Joelma Batista Tebaldi (JB); Pepe, Alda Muniz (AM);

Affiliation: Santa Cruz State University. joelmatebaldi(-atsign-)uol.com.br

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Revista latino-americana de enfermagem (Rev Lat Am Enfermagem), published in Brazil. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2007 Jan-Feb; vol 15 (issue 1) : pp 120-6

Dates: Created 2007/03/21; Completed 2007/08/17;

PMID: 17375242, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Adult
Brazil
Curriculum
Education, Nursing - organization & administration; standards
Female

Female
Humans
Male
Questionnaires
Teaching - methods

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