O ensino da ética no curso de enfermagem: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The national curriculum guidelines of the nursing graduation course of 2001 emphasizes that the desired professional profile is of a general, humanist, critic and reflexive formation with the general competences related to health attention, decision making, communication, leadership, administration, management and continuing education. Among other characteristics, a qualified professional who performs the nursing function based on the scientific and intellectual precision and also according to the ethics principles. Aware of these demands, we present the research: Ethics Teaching in the Nursing College Course: a case study, with the objective of identifying how ethics teaching is developed in the nursing course and analyzing its repercussion in the professional practice of the nurse to get subsidy for changes. The research was developed using the case study methodology approach. To collect data we used the reflexive, demi-directed and demi-structured interview. The sample is composed of ten ex-students with ages over eighteen, both genders, who are nurses in Presidente Prudente city (SP) and graduated after 2003, year when the Nursing Practices subject curriculum went through changes. To analyze the data collected and based on the Bardin (2008) references, the information was organized through recording scripts, reading and analyses of the material and, then, classified in the topics: ethics, ethics teaching and repercussion in the professional practice. The categories used were: family, school, attitudes, methodologies, legislation, discipline, respect, secret and security, getting to the conclusion that ethics should be inserted in the whole curriculum and that the teaching methods should be based in the social context of the student and the Nursing.