This study identifies the perceptions of undergraduate nursing students concerning their education to provide transpersonal care. This qualitative study was conducted in four public universities in Bahia, Brazil with 16 seniors (non-probabilistic sampling) through semi-structured interviews, analyzed through the Collective Subject Discourse. The results expressed the students' feelings in the face of the challenge to provide transpersonal care; the psycho-cognitive competencies required by inter-subjective praxis; their perceptions concerning the curriculum in relation to the psycho-emotional dimension of being, untying critical knots; strategies suggested. The final reflections indicate the need to implement changes in the professional education of nurses in order to recover the humanistic view while preserving the scientific view. Undergraduate courses should develop an interactive methodology capable of supporting a more humane, sensitive and inter-subjective care praxis.
La enseñanza superior de enfermería: implicaciones de la formación profesional para el cuidado transpersonalEl estudio buscó conocer las percepciones de estudiantes del Curso de Graduación en Enfermería acerca de su formación para el cuidado transpersonal. Se trata de una investigación cualitativa realizada en cuatro Universidades Públicas de Bahía, con 16 estudiantes del último curso (muestreo no probabilístico), a través de entrevista semiestructurada, analizada por medio del Discurso del Sujeto Colectivo. Los resultados expresaron los sentimientos de los discentes delante del desafío del cuidado transpersonal; las habilidades psicocognitivas necesarias para la praxis intersubjetiva; las percepciones acerca del plan de estudios en relación a la dimensión psicoemocional del ser y el desatar de los nudos críticos -estrategias sugeridas. Las reflexiones finales apuntan para la necesidad de implementar modificaciones en la formación profesional del enfermero, de modo a rescatar la mirada humanística junto al científico. Se sugiere que los cursos de graduación desarrollen una metodología interactiva capaz de subsidiar una praxis de cuidado más humana, sensible e intersubjetiva.Descriptores: Enfermería; Programas de Graduación en Enfermería; Atención de Enfermería; Educación en Enfermería.
IntroductionThe proposal of this study originated during the development of a Master's thesis in Nursing and Health Contemporary nursing seeks to break with Cartesianism, to which it is still in submission, to elevate and value the subjective aspects in the professional relationship and human beings, both involved in the care process that involves personal experiences, meanings, values and different ways of being and coping with daily situations in the universe of relationships, which permeate the knowing-being-doing of care based on subjectivity.However, the development of this inter-relationship in the care process is faced with limitations professionals have to deal with to expose their subjectivity and perceive and welcome the subjectivity of another. Sch...