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Nurse training: challenges for health promotion

This was a descriptive/exploratory study of qualitative character carried out in two Nursing Schools in the State of Minas Gerais. The goal was to analyze the referential of nurses regarding health promotion. Nineteen course coordinators, faculty members, students and professionals of the health services involved in nurse training were interviewed. The results indicate a conceptual imprecision about health promotion and disease prevention. Revealed conceptions of health-promoting practices are associated to practices that affect the quality of life, which lies on a broad and complex concept of health, and are incipient in the current health care scenario. The conclusion is that health promotion is taken as political decision for a change in nurse training, as made explicit in the pedagogical projects of the institutions taking part in the study. However, such incorporation is incipient and heterogeneous in terms of its theoretical formulation, thus indicating the need for widening the space for a conceptual analysis in the relations that allow for the production of health and of a training process.

Nursing Education; Curriculum; Health Promotion


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