| Category 1 - Integration of indigenous knowledge with knowledge acquired in training. |
We, indigenous professionals have to seek a balance in care, since Western medicine is scientific, while indigenous medicine is the union of spirituality, herbs and blessing. (N3)
I think it is this, not to impose my new scientific knowledge on theirs. Always wait for the first step, the customs are presented and then we develop from there. (N7)
I have always tried to respect my culture with that of non-indigenous people, and it has worked, in my practice, at work. (N9)
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There will always be cultural conflicts. In college, the indigenous issue was not much worked on and if I had not been indigenous, I would have been more lost than I was in relation to the health issues of our peoples. (N1)
[...] during the Nursing course, indigenous issues were not open to discussion in the classroom. (N6)
Our indigenous culture has specificities, so it is important to know these aspects in advance, so thereis no conflict and we can strengthen ties with the community. (N8)
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For those who are indigenous, it is not difficult to articulate knowledge after yougraduate. We work together with midwives and shamans, associating knowledge. We are always helping; it is a type of cooperative care. (N10)
For the non-indigenous nurse, it is more difficult, it takes time to understand and learn. To avoid conflict, you should value traditional knowledge and try to raise awareness. (N11)
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| Category 2 - Knowledge required to work with indigenous people. |
Different views of health rather than western European. Perhaps, about the history of Brazil, with emphasis on the indigenous view of colonization, indigenous genocide and impact on the health-disease conception. (N1)
The life system! Except that each people has a different system, teachers could at least carry out a amalgamation of some peoples, due to their ethnic diversity and specificities. (N2)
I could talk about the ethnic groups, after all each one has its specificity in relation to the territory in which it lives. Go a little into the indigenous health policy of Brazil, especially considering the health-disease process. (N5)
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[...] none of the nurses in my class came out prepared or with any notion about indigenous health [...]. (N7)
It would be important to include the indigenous health content in the Nursing course, since the student graduates and often their first job is in indigenous health. (N8)
The university should take the students to the indigenous villages to really know what indigenous health is. Many conflicts occur due to lack of knowledge about indigenous culture and traditions. (N10)
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[...] I think that bringing students to the indigenous cultural spaces and context and their health views would help in the training. (N6)
There should have been an internship in the indigenous basic health units, because if some student wants, after they graduate, to work in the area, they will not be lost, will not waste time, because they will have a more complete training [...]. (N11)
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| Category 3 - Difficulties faced during training as a nurse. |
Elementary and high school education is precarious, so I had to study more than my colleagues to overcome the deficiencies I had regarding the Portuguese language and the interpretation of case studies. (N2)
The biggest difficulty was not having internet skills, because in the village we had no access at the time. (N8))
[...] the teaching in the villages is not as developed as in the city, so it is difficult, especially because our mother tongue is different. (N9)
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The difficulties that we indigenous people face is prejudice. So, we sought support from other colleagues who were also college students. (N5)
The difficulty was in the looks of some teachers as well as students. Thus, I sought to overcome this by studying more, so that the prejudice would be lighter. (N6)
The worst thing is to feel excluded from the rest of the class because you are the different one, different language, physical characteristics, speed in learning. (N7)
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[...] financial difficulty, the scholarships helped a lot, it was my salvation to stay in university. (N3)
I had difficulty regarding money to pay for the booklets, I sought the content, and used the computer lab to read about the pending content without the booklets. (N11)
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