Knowledge and experience of students concerning the professional masters in nursing

Abstract

The objective of the study is to analyze the knowledge and experience of students concerning the Professional Masters in Nursing. We interviewed 12 students admitted to the masters in 2010, through focus groups. The study was conducted from 2010 to 2012.We used the content analysis, obtaining the following result: The masters holds great relationship with the practice aimed at transformation; it contributes significantly to the development of critical skills training, despite the existing social prejudice and the product of the masters aims at contributing directly to the service. We conclude that in nursing there is a fertile ground for the development of Professional Masters, its expansion is necessary and should consider the political project of the profession, which presupposes the formation of a critical nurse and endowed with strong social commitment.

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“…The publication G develops a qualitative study analyzing the knowledge and experience of students about the professional master's in Nursing. 15 Article H made a descriptive study that investigated the production of knowledge generated by the professional master's programs in Nursing and reflected on their perspectives for the area. 6 Two research articles are studies on Stricto sensu postgraduate being the professional master's one of the scenarios.…”

“…The knowledge of these reasons is of extreme relevance for the consolidation of the program not only from the organizational point of view of the national postgraduate system, but also of democratization of the access to education by Nursing workers, who intend to continue their studies after undergraduate programs, inserting them into high-level academic performance programs. 15 Studies say that funding is one of the main difficulties for the expansion of the master's degree. A self-financing master's degree is difficult to survive when inserted in public universities, since, by virtue of law, there is an impediment of direct collection to the student.…”

“…10 However, the requirement of professional master's funding, independent of the governmental sources of resources, can represent a filter by which only professionals already absorbed by companies or by public institutions make difficult the engagement of other professionals who do not meet these conditions. 15 The ideal would be that the professional master's degree received the same investments as the other Stricto sensu graduate programs.…”

“…The effort of this professional to attend the master's degree demystifies the prejudice that is had in relation to the professionals who work in the practical field, considered as deprived of a theoretical and academic interest and with little potential to manifest critical thinking. 15 This stigma exists because the rigidly interpreted country evaluation system has helped to consolidate a markedly sequential Stricto sensu postgraduate model: master's / doctorate. This model has removed from the academy practitioners involved with practice privileging newly graduated students with experience of scientific initiation during graduation.…”

“…This model has removed from the academy practitioners involved with practice privileging newly graduated students with experience of scientific initiation during graduation. 15 In this way, it is fundamental to seek the identity of this level of education in the area, as well as the training process, with a view to valuing professionals who are in the practical field and who return to the gym to build products that modify the practice. 6 In addition to financial support, the professional master's degree requires a receptive environment, an institutional disposition to implement new management processes, a qualified teaching staff to act in this new modality of teaching, which makes it possible to listen to students' experiences and discuss new educational methods and technologies that dialogues with other sectors of society, new configurations and curricular Despite the regulation and the relative growth of nursing professional masters in Brazil, society in general and the academic environment seem to lack clarifications about the nature, products, social impacts and areas of knowledge of these courses that can effectively contribute to make innovations from professional masters.…”