Residência em enfermagem: experiência dos egressos

Abstract

This study has the general objective: to analyze the experiences of graduates in residency programs in nursing UNCISAL; and the following objectives: identify the motivations to study the residence; sociodemograficamente characterize nurses of the residency programs of UNCISAL, from 2007 to May 2014 to meet the academic and professional career thereof. It is an exploratory research, descriptive, qualitative and quantitative approach. Data collection occurred by sending a structured questionnaire to the email address of the participants and also in other spaces, such as workplaces, in the period from July to October 2014. Of the population of 68 graduates certificates in the collection period data, participated in the study 62 (91%). Qualitative data were subjected to content analysis; and analysis of quantitative data we used the nonparametric chi -square, and the analysis performed using the statistical package Bioestat 5.0. The main results showed that 93.44% of nurses graduating from the residence were placed in the labor market, where 91.80% reported that the residence contributed to this achievement. As for the training, 25% entered the strict sense specialization and 80.33% developed functions that are directly related coma cursada residence. Among the motivations to study the residence was the opportunity of theoretical deepening and innovation in professional practice, the search for qualification with better pay and expanding the inflow of chances in the labor market. The results obtained from the research contributed to the development of a product which constitutes a tool (questionnaire) designed to monitor the residence of graduates in nursing UNCISAL, and has the following dimensions to be investigated: quality of residence course; pedagogical issues (curriculum, teacher); self evaluation of graduates; sociodemographic data; materials and physical resources available for the realization of the course.