Abstract
This study aims to understand the academy-service integration in nursing education. Qualitative surveys were used and dialectic hermeneutics served as an analytical framework. In all, teachers, nursing assistants, and fourth year nursing students of a Nursing course at a college that has a hospital complex certified as a teaching hospital answered 24 questionnaires. What was found was that there are mingling spaces among the players and that knowledge is built from practice, enabling the development of individual and collective care and of management. The academy-service integration encourages service professionals to seek knowledge and research and contributes to changes in practice and to generating commitment among the students. Difficulties arise from the incompatibility in the agendas of teachers and nurses, from the little involvement of the teacher with the practice, from an overload and lack of preparation among nurses for teaching, over and above from a lack of understanding among the multidisciplinary team about the role played by the teaching hospital. There is a need to adapt the structures and expand opportunities for dialog, with greater involvement and shared decision-making and to qualify the service professional. Furthermore, there is also a need for investments to qualify the teaching and service integration process.
Keywords
teaching-care integration services; training of human resources; teaching hospitals; higher education; nursing students