Tecnologia Educacional - Painel Integrado Saúde-Ambiente - na formação do enfermeiro: pesquisa descritiva

Abstract

Aim: To evaluate the use of educational technology, the "Health-Environment Integrated Panel" with nursing graduates. Method: This is a descriptive, evaluative research, of a qualitative approach, conducted through a questionnaire with 18 nursing students of Rio das Ostras campus, of the Federal Fluminense University in May 2015. The data received analytical treatment that included exploration, organization and interpretive synthesis. Results: The results show the usability of technology and good ability to generate reflection, interaction and motivation for learning about the dynamics of the health-disease process resulting from socioenvironmental changes in the territory, and the ethical and political attitudes of nurses front these issues. Discussion: With the use of educational technology in this scenario, it was possible to implement a creative and stimulating practice of teaching, which involved action-reflection on various aspects of observed reality, favoring significant learning on the health-environment relationship in the training space of nurses. Conclusion: We suggest adjustments and validation of the aforementioned technology.

Environmental health: emancipatory care challenges and possibilities by the nurse

“…Another challenge relates to the ability of nurses to assist people with morbidities related to environmental and occupational exposure to hazardous substances, through the implementation of early intervention actions in nursing, in these health problems, as well as skills to collaborate with communities with forms coping in disasters, floods, and overflows (1,4) . There is no published knowledge about nursing practices in these problematic contexts (1) .…”

“…Nowadays, there is a growing movement of nurse autonomy, with the expansion and consolidation of care and management actions in PHC services, which include emancipatory health promotion practices (2) . However, it is revealed as a challenge of this type of practice, the application of methods of community intervention by nurses, which contribute to the improvement of environmental quality and equity in Collective Health (4) .…”

“…The expansion of environmental education actions by nurses at all levels of education and health care has been consolidated in recent decades.As a result, it has become an important working tool in the management of socio-environmental problems and their impacts on public health (4) . Nevertheless, environmental education still presents a challenge for nurses.…”

“…However, the applicability of Paulo Freire's pedagogical assumptions in Environmental Health educational practices has emerged as a challenging possibility for nurses. The pedagogical relationship based on the valorization of a democratic and horizontal dialogue between learners and educators, for knowledge construction, in which authentic thinking and the plurality of knowledge of both and of the protagonism of the participants must be respected, must be linked to the critical dimensions, transforming and emancipating this Environmental Health educational praxis (4,7) .…”

“…Nurses must distance themselves from naturalistic conceptions that have been guiding practices in Environmental Health. They must know different tools of territorial analysis and possibilities of socio-environmental participatory diagnosis, which are closer to the curricular aspects of their training, based more on social theories than on laboratory and quantitative analyzes (1,4) .…”