Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To analyze how with a Teaching Diploma in Nursing Students understand the concept of health promotion, their perception of the nurse’s work in the basic education schools and about the practices of health promotion related to the nurse educator training.
METHODS
Qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, the data were collected in 2015, from 11 nursing students from a Public University in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
A semi-structured interview was used. The data was subjected to thematic content analysis.
RESULTS
Three thematic nuclei were identified: "Health Promotion: overcoming the hegemonic model of technical rationality"; "The work of nurses in basic education: intersectoriality and interdisciplinarity" and "Promotion and education in health in school: dialogic and reflexive practice educational".
CONCLUSION
The conception and the practices of health promotion facilitate the vocational training process and empowers teaching nurses to work on social changes and in the development of individual’s empowerment.
Keywords:
Health promotion; Education nursing; Health education; Students nursing