Formando os futuros profissionais da saúde : potências, fragilidades, convergências e divergências vivenciadas por estudantes e professores no processo de formação ética

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

As a nurse and professor of General Pathology for undergraduate students from different health science fields, I have been confronted to understand the current context of Curriculum Guidelines which associate technical with ethical and humanist contents. Following the commitment made by the Universities and the Health Ministry I also train the students on the National Health System. The research question: In what way do teachers and undergraduate health science students express the process of ethical education training based on their daily experiences and interactions through the sensitive perspective (intersubjective, affective and relational) and through the complex perspective(relationships, interactions and associations)? Objectives: To understand the process of ethical education training for teachers and health science undergraduate students in order to develop a theoretical framework on the process of ethical education training of health professionals. The theoretical framework lays at the Edgar Morin.s Complex Thought and on Michel Maffesoli.s sensitive thinking and everyday life concepts. The methodological approach applied the Grounded Theory method (GT) for research on health courses documents, behavioral observations in classroom settings and semi-structured interviews collected from 2 population samples. The first group consisted of 9 health course coordinators and 11 professors of ethics, and the second group consisted of 25 undergraduate students. Nine health education courses (2 Nursing, 1 Pharmacy, 1 Physical Therapy, 2 Medical Studies, 2 Nutrition and 1 Dental) were selected from one public and one private university in the Florianopolis/SC metropolitan area. The results led to the central theme: The education of future health professionals: strengths, weaknesses, similarities and differences experienced by students and teachers in the process of ethical education training. The core variable is formed by four categories, eleven sub-categories and 55 components. The categories are: experiencing the curriculum reform process according to the organizational policies of health and education while taking into account the concerns of the population; Understanding the urgency of ethical competences and skills as an on going movement within the ethical education process for teachers and students; Expressing health care in its multiple and complex dimensions, guided by reason and sensibility; and Building knowledge about the world of work to strengthen the ethical professional practice. It has been discussed that ethics of care is a result of a thoughtful attitude, an action taken with reason, sensitivity, and expertise. Ethics emphasizes the importance of relationships and interactions among people to achieve knowledge. The conclusions point to a comprehensive look at human nature in order to establish ethics as a thoughtful attitude: to think in order to act with consideration, to evolve discernment to better judge everyday or conflictual situations; to train in making decisions. Understanding this leads to action and not passivity. This allows for everyday mutual relations and positive assertion of human strength, in spite of its weaknesses. The thesis was then validated: The skills and strengths for ethical education training of health science students emerge from their everyday life interactions, in an ongoing motion, complex and dependent on these interactions.

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profissionais da área da saúde enfermagem etica profissional formação profissional enfermagem

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