Challenges in the pedagogical practice in nursing professional education

Abstract

Descriptive study of qualitative approach, which has as objective to expose how nurses’ formation determines their pedagogic practice in professional nursing education, principally in what is referred to interdisciplinary. It was gathered the expressions of a nursing educators group of nursing middle level technical courses of Santa Catarina state. Data collection was done through semi-structured interviews and as a procedure for data analysis it was adopted the stages of the opened and axial codification of the Fundamental Data Theory. The results show that one of the greatest challenges is related to initial and permanent educators formation, to act in conformation with the proposed principles of the Directive Law and Base (DLB), especially the object of this study, the interdisciplinary. It is concluded that there is a distance to the proposed principles by DLB, and as a result it is seen the necessity of docent work capacitation in the interdisciplinary perspective.

Descriptors: Education, Nursing; Nursing; Education, Professional; Teaching.