ABSTRACT
Objective
Learn the perceptions of nursing professionals of a university hospital regarding the interactive process with nursing management practicum students.
Methods
A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study was conducted by means of 11 semi-structured interviews with nurses, nursing technicians and nursing aides in medical-surgical units. The information, collected between December 2013 and January 2014, was submitted to a thematic analysis and discussed according to Pichon-Rivière.
Results
Results were grouped into three categories: Practicum students and the nursing team: interaction that can provide learning, mutual help and satisfaction; Despite the pre-task, work must go on; and Nursing team: the practicum facilitator.
Conclusion
In the beginning, their coexistence was full of basic anxieties, but while elaborating these feelings, the group was created and shifts into teamwork. In this logic, issues like patience, empathy, communication and coherence facilitate the interactive process, and are essential for a critical (re)reading of the reality.
Group processes; Hospital administration; Education; University hospitals; Internships