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Consensus of expert professors of subfields of Nursing knowledge: objectives, contents and methods

Abstract

Aim

to describe the relationships among objectives, content, and teaching methods in subfields of Nursing knowledge from the consensus of expert professors.

Methods

a Delphi study in four rounds. Participants were 112 professors from undergraduate courses at public Higher Education Institutions in Brazil divided into seven panels by subarea. The data were analyzed using the Content Analysis technique in light of Shulman's concepts of knowledge of objectives and pedagogical knowledge of content, transformed into the qualitative variables of interest, objectives, content and teaching methods, around which consensus was sought.

Results

only the subareas of Collective Health Nursing and Nursing in Management and Administration agreed on objectives. Agreed contents were related to public policies and programs of the Unified Health System. Methods suggest the coexistence of tradition and innovation.

Conclusions and implications for practice

the awareness of the relationships among the objectives, contents, and methods used by the professors impacts the promotion of dialogue and the integration among the subareas, implying, in practice, a potentiated or fragile professional formation in resolute quality of health problems.

Keywords:
Faculty; Education in Nursing; Higher Education; Nursing; Teaching

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