A abordagem da interface saúde e meio ambiente na formação profissional de enfermeiros

Abstract

This study aimed to know how nursing professors perceive the interface between health and environment. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach developed with six nursing professors from different areas in the process of training nurses. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews in 2010 and underwent a process of content analysis. The data analysis allowed the emergence of categories, namely: Health and environmental interface: a relation of cause and consequence, Discussion on the issue of health and environment in vocational training: a gap in the educational process, and Health and environment a cross-sectional content. Based on the understanding that there is interaction between health and environment, the professors emphasize that the environment should be a cross-sectional theme in the curriculum proposal for the Nursing undergraduate major, since they show gaps in addressing the issue.

Educação ambiental para docentes enfermeiros: percepção e relação com a formação do enfermeiro

“…The wider debate about the interface health and environment, the training of nurses is essential and needs to be intensified, since both the development of actions that promote health, and rehabilitation constitute an opportunity to produce environmental education that is worried about the awakening of ecological subjects based on the complex web of relationships between man and the environment (6) . However, it is necessary to demarcate that the environmental design should not be limited to the bi-ological component, given that the environment involves a complexity that joins different aspects of human life such as: social, economic, cultural.…”

“…In order to achieve this, teachers need to be open to new ways of conceiving knowledge, such as from the environmental perspective, reorienting the current disciplinary fragmentation towards interdisciplinarity. In this sense, the theme must be driven towards interdisciplinarity and capable of evaluating the relationship between the humans, health and environment, from a change in the way we relate to and interact with the environment itself (6) . …”

“…By incorporating EE in training practices, teachers have the opportunity to form a professional committed to human beings and the environment, with which it maintains a complex web of relationships (6) .The MDGs represent an opportunity for decision-making and review of postures, public policy and academic programs, since global problems are everyone's responsibility, leaving the universities with the responsibility to train more innovative, flexible and committed professionals (17) .…”

“…Research developed with nursing faculty points out that, even though they have clarity about the losses arising from the current environmental issues and their implications on the health of populations, there is still no effective discussion on the subject, which must be configured as a cross-cutting theme in the training process (6) . Thus, bringing educators to the discussion of EE and professional education constitutes a precondition to enhance their educational activity, exposing them to dialogue and participation, while reaffirming commitment to the future nurse and society ( 3) .…”

A Questão Ambiental E a Enfermagem: Percepções De Enfermeiros E Estudantes

“…No processo de ensino dos estudantes de enfermagem, é relevante intensificar debates acerca da temática saúde e meio ambiente, pois enquanto profissionais terão atuações em atividades de promoção e reabilitação em saúde. Tais campos poderão abrir possibilidades para que os profissionais possam desenvolver práticas voltadas para uma educação ambiental, enfatizando a importância de um despertar de sujeitos ecológicos (CAMPONOGARA et al, 2011). Assim, pressupõe que o cuidado de enfermagem necessita contemplar o ser humano em todas as suas relações e interações com o meio ambiente (MORESCHI et al, 2011).…”