Educating Nursing Aid Professionals to Care for the Elderly in Professionalization Courses in Belo Horizonte – MG / "Formação dos auxiliares de enfermagem para cuidar de idosos nos cursos profissionalizantes de Belo Horizonte - MG"

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

The study had the aim to understand the education of nursing aids of professionalization courses in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, in 2003, with a focus on aging. It is a descriptive exploratory study of the educational projects, of the teaching plans of the disciplines comprising nursing aid education, and of interviews that were performed with coordinators and teachers of the referred courses. The analyzed data express the intention of promoting an emancipatory, inclusive, and citizenship education in the educational projects. This was more evidenced in public courses, being that in private courses the commitment of answering to the market demand arises; showing, therefore, a small visibility of the theme of aging. The educational goals and strategies presented in the teaching plans denote, however, a traditional and reproductive approach of the minimum curricula, modified by the new Brazilian law of educational guidelines. Therefore, it is observed that the theme of aging is part of educational projects, accompanying the new curricular guidelines, makes reference to human beings during the vital cycle. The flexibility of the educational content allows the inclusion of questions and problems relevant to reality in its dynamism and changes, but is not much present in teaching plans. The theme is brought up in few disciplines, with the minimum of class hours. These data agree with the information obtained in the interviews, in which the approach to aging has no formal record, revealing in the occult curriculum the small visibility of this knowledge in the education of nursing aids. The study concludes that, despite the small visibility of the theme in the courses, the interviewed persons revealed the need to introduce the theme of aging in the curriculum of nursing aids, as a way to contribute to the acquisition of abilities and competencies to deal with the demand of the elderly in health services. The study also presents suggestions of subjects about aging, with the intent to encourage initiatives in educational projects of the referred courses, based on the fundamentals of SUS (Single Health System) and Profae (Project for the Professionalization of Nursing Staff), directed to health promotion and prevention of diseases during life, including the attention to the health of the elderly, in face of the demographic change that accompanies the aging of the population in the Brazilian society.

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auxiliar de enfermagem nursing aid care cursos profissionalizantes idoso cuidado envelhecimento planos de ensino aging professionalization courses educational project projeto pedagógico teaching plan elderly

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