Educação em saúde: o enfermeiro como protagonista do Staff docente

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from a doctoral research in which a study was carried out on the insertion of nurses in the school environment. The process of training professionals to practice teaching has been a challenge for public management as well as for Brazil, specifically for policies aimed at education, especially in recent decades. The training of the Graduate in Nursing, as it is a Bachelor's degree, ends up not having the subjects that are more specific in a more in-depth way aimed at working in teaching. Which ends up being reflected in the pedagogical methodology, which is a discipline that is seen in undergraduate nursing courses. Nurse training is directed towards the most assisted areas and that are inherent to the area, whether this assistance is focused on primary care or that applied to other levels of health care. Within the formulated study, field research is used with different approaches that could provide answers to the objectives of this study: the quanti-qualitative form. From the objectives, we proposed an approach focused on public policies addressing health education and the role of the nurse as an educator and member of the school, where we know that developing these actions to promote health and health education in the school environment is of paramount importance. and shows positive effects on the health of school components. This professional inserted in schools can offer several activities such as measuring blood pressure, and articulating events with other professionals such as the doctor, a dentist, approaching through these activities the principle related to life, help, equity, citizenship, noting that such activity is a pedagogical system aimed at human development, creating bonds of intellectual independence of the citizen so that he can take care of himself and his health.