The Moral Values of Nursing Undergraduation: Perception of Teachers and Students

Abstract

Objective: to compare the moral values that nursing teachers and students consider important for vocational training with those they believe are promoted throughout undergraduate study. Method: a qualitative research; an ethnographic study conducted at a public nursing school in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in 2018, involving 40 interviews with teachers and students and a participant observation phase. Results: the moral values that teachers and students consider important for vocational training, as well as those that are promoted, converge on prudence, respect, responsibility, and empathy. It is noteworthy that the knowledge was much cited by the respondents and this article interpreted it as prudence. However, in relation to the values promoted during undergraduation, students warn that these are stimulated when referring to the binomial student-user of health, because they do not feel to the same intensity the presence of these moral values in the teacher-student relationship. Conclusion: a powerful strategy for teaching about moral values is to promote the care of their own students, teachers and staff. In this way, mismatches are avoided between what is said and what is done by experiencing values such as prudence, respect, responsibility and empathy within interpersonal relationships and in the daily life of the school.

Academic-Professional Mobility and Internationalization of Nursing: Contributions of the Bologna Process

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Facilidades e entraves da referência em unidade de pronto atendimento

“…No que se refere à empatia dos profissionais dos serviços, percebe-se que, no cotidiano da UPA, muitas vezes, esta é um recurso que os profissionais dispõem para enfrentar os entraves na referência, caracterizada por atitudes de bom senso e boa vontade entre os profissionais dos serviços pré-hospitalar e hospitalar. Compreende-se a empatia como um dos valores morais relevantes na formação profissional 16 . Em um serviço de emergência, dentre os fatores que constituem a habilidade empática, destacou-se, entre os profissionais, a maior capacidade de sensibilizar-se com a situação de outras pessoas 17 .…”