The interface between teaching of the nursing process and the application in professional practice

Abstract

The nursing process is characterized as a technology of care. This study aimed to reflect on the teaching of nursing process in the undergraduate program. Considering that one organizes oneself with a technology light-firm in the nursing care, suitable to effectiveness and efficacy of the health services. The reflection points out three topics for discussion: the nursing process as an indication to the usage of nursing; the nursing process as a care technology and its teaching in the undergraduate program. This is understood with a light-firm technology, because, in its conception, the structured knowledge, associated with dialogue and sensible hearing, they exist and define the nurse’s action, allowing the building of a critical conscience to the people involved in the care, being communication a necessary instrument. New ways of work and technology emerge that are incorporated to the professional’s practice. It brings a challenge to the nurse’s formation and practice, which considers the new knowledge; because the nursing process as technology demands opening to the complexity and a critical exercise to the attention to the human beings necessities, focus of the nursing care.

Descriptors: Nursing Education; Nursing Process; Technology; Nursing.