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Systematization of teaching nursing care at a technical level: perception of professors

Abstract

Objective:

The aim was to describe the perception of professors on approaching systematization of teaching nursing care at the technical level.

Methods:

Descriptive study of a mixed approach. Seven professors of the Technical Nursing Course of a public university in northeastern Brazil participated in a focus group. The textual content was organized by using the free software “Interface of R for multi-dimensional text and questionnaire analysis”, and data analysis was performed based on the theoretical framework of Alfred Schutz.

Results:

The technical nursing course professors indicated the importance of integrating the nursing technician into the systematization of care, and emphasized the need to include this theme in technical level training.

Conclusion:

Professors identify doubts and fears about not knowing how and when to teach the systematization of nursing care at the technical level, but ponder the possibilities and needs to consolidate this theme.

Keywords
Nursing process; Faculty, nursing; Education, nursing, associate; Nurses' aides

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