BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This study was a contribution to the teaching of pain in pre-hospital care (PHC). The objective was to understand the vision of professors and graduating nurses about pain teaching for nursing PHC to trauma victims. METHOD: This was a descriptive, exploratory and qualitative research with 6 professors of the Nursing Graduation Course who teach disciplines on acute pain of trauma victims. Data were collected by an interview oriented by the question: "Which is your vision about teaching pain in nursing pre-hospital care to trauma victims?" The analysis was intermediated by the assumptions of the Pedagogic Module for pain teaching of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), looking for the meaning of the phenomenon in the hermeneutic view. RESULTS: Among professors, five were females aged between 31 and 40 years. Five were graduated in Nursing for more than 10 years and 5 were professors for 10 to 15 years. The following categories have emerged from the interviews: "pain teaching in the PHC physical dimension" and "pain teaching in the PHC emotional dimension". CONCLUSION: It is necessary to develop teaching proposals to teach pain in its multidimensional aspects, as recommended by the IASP.
Nursing; Pain; Teaching; Traumatology
