Health education: analysis of its teaching in undergraduate nursing courses

Abstract

From the perspective of Collective Health, this study aimed to analyze how the teaching of health education in undergraduate Nursing courses is processed contemporarily. The Educational Institutions were selected so as to represent the public and private sectors.The subjects, teachers responsible for developing the theme, were identified from the indications of the Coordinators of the Courses. An exploratory, descriptive, analytical, study with a qualitative approach was developed, which utilized documental analysis and a semi-structured interview based on a script, the analysis of which followed the steps of content analysis and identification of thematic nuclei. The results showed that the teaching developed remains largely linked with the biomedical preventive model and that the concepts of critical education and 'popular' educational practices are scarce, due to the deficient political education of the teachers, and more broadly, as a consequence of coping with an academic context of the implementation of the neoliberal ideas.Descriptors: Health Education; Education, Nursing; Education, Higher; Faculty, Nursing. Educación en salud: análisis de la enseñanza en la graduación en enfermería En la perspectiva de la Salud Colectiva, se objetivó analizar como se procesa en la contemporaneidad la enseñanza de educación en salud en cursos de graduación en Enfermería. Las Instituciones de Enseñanza fueron seleccionadas de manera a representar al sector público y al privado. Los sujetos, docentes responsables por el desarrollo de la temática, fueron identificados a partir de la indicación de los Coordinadores de los Cursos.Se realizó una investigación de carácter exploratorio, descriptivo y analítico, de abordaje cualitativo, que se utilizó del análisis documental, de entrevista semiestructurada, con base en un guión, cuyo análisis siguió los pasos del análisis de contenido e identificación de núcleos temáticos. Los resultados evidenciaron que la enseñanza desarrollada permanece mayoritariamente vinculada al modelo biomédico preventivo, y que las concepciones de educación crítica y las prácticas educativas 'populares' son escasas, debido a la deficitaria formación política de los docentes, y más ampliamente, como consecuencia del enfrentamiento de un contexto académico de implementación del ideario neoliberal.Descriptores: Educación en Salud; Educación en Enfermería; Educación Superior; Docentes de Enfermería. IntroductionIn the broad process of redemocratization of the . Some researchers (7)(8)(9)(10) restriction of the institutional role to the attendance of the needs of the productive market (11) .Although the organization of the nursing area has solidified important changes in the educational processes in response to the political project of the health sector, this process became secondary to the neoliberal ideas at the moment of the implementation of the NCG, through the incorporation of pragmatic and New School pedagogical principles, expressed primordially in the learn to learn and in the discourse of the comp...

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