A percepção de estudantes da graduação de enfermagem sobre o Programa Saúde na Escola (PSE)

Abstract

The need to train human health resources focused on the requirements of the Unified Health System (SUS) led Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to reorient the student training process. During the Supervised Curricular Internship (ECS), the student must participate effectively in the planning and development of the actions of the School Health Program (PSE). This Academic Course Completion Work (TACC), of the Professional Master's Degree in Health Education at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of the State of Alagoas (FAMED/UFAL), consists of two parts: the first, composed of a scientific article resulting the research carried out; the second, for an educational product. The research aimed to understand the perception of undergraduate Nursing students about the PSE, through their vision of the themes and actions developed by the program, as well as the contributions of the PSE to professional training through the integration of Teaching, Health and Community. This is a case study, with a qualitative approach, in which data collection was carried out in an online focus group with undergraduate Nursing students from the 9th period at Faculdade Cesmac do Sertão, in the city of Palmeira dos Índios (AL), with the inclusion criteria being students who were in the Supervised Curricular Internship in the Basic Health Network in the last 02 (two) years in the municipality of Taquarana (AL). For data analysis, the content analysis method was used, divided into three stages: pre-analysis; exploration of the material; treatment of results, inference and interpretation. The result was 02 (two) categories of analysis: 1) Knowledge and Development of the PSE, in which 4 (four) subcategories were identified: knowledge about the PSE, carrying out PSE activities, actors involved in the activities, difficulties and challenges in the planning and development of activities, and 2) Integration of Teaching, Service and Community in Professional Training. Thus, a scientific article was produced, entitled: “The perception of undergraduate nursing students about the School Health Program (PSE).” Based on these results, an e-book entitled: “PSE Actions – School Health Program” was created as an intervention product. This study is expected to contribute to the critical-reflective training of students to resolve health problems in the school community through the integration of teaching, health and community, as a change in the attitude of health and education professionals and health students in Basic Health Unit (UBS), especially in the development of PSE actions.