Educação interprofissional nos cuidados intensivos em saúde pediátrica e neonatal: percepção dos discentes e residentes

Abstract

The global shortage of health professionals has been considered a barrier to achieving healthrelated millennium development goals. One of the suggested solutions is an interprofessional collaboration, focusing on interprofessional training in which students from two or more professions learn about others, with the others and each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. In this perspective, neonatal intensive care has been concerned with the quality of newborns’ life inside the unit, introducing in the work routines spaces of care and unique care to the newborn, creating alternatives that acquire the best assistance, through training the team for more collaborative practices. Therefore, the research proposed to know the perception of students in the health area on interprofessionality and its outcomes, in search of possibilities to improvements for the service and for the learning of those involved. The methodological approach was qualitative, of the case study type, through the focal group technique, performed in the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Unit Care. The undergraduates from the health area and medicine resident of the UTIP/N participated in this research. Data collection was based on two focus groups. The speeches were recorded, transcribed, coded and analyzed by thematic categories using the Bardin content analysis technique. Three thematic categories emerged: interprofessional knowledge, interprofessional experiences and the importance of interprofessionality for integrality, the research data allows us to make the following reflections, one of them is about the organization and management of teaching-learning in curricular stages and residences of the health area on the prism of integrality, leading us to believe in the need for curricular reorganization for na interprofessional practice based on collaboration, focused on teamwork. Considering the research data, it is concluded that the interprofessional practice is a model far from the reality in the practice scenario, still prevails the uniprofessionality in the formation, mainly by the inheritance of the biomedical model in the field of professional performance. From this work, a technical report was prepared and presented to coordinators of the Nursing, Physiotherapy and Psychology courses of the University Center Tiradentes of Alagoas - UNIT/AL and to the preceptors of the medical residency in Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care of the Hospital do Açúcar de Alagoas with the intention of promoting reflection and elaborating strategies that enable the interprofessional practice