PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN NURSING: SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF TEACHERS OF A MUNICIPALITY IN THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO.

• Main Authors: Maria Conceição Bernardo de Mello e Souza, Raquel Cequalini Frozoni
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade de Brasília 2013-03-01
• Series: Revista Gestão & Saúde
• Online Access: http://Professional Education. Nursing. Faculty.

Along the history of nursing in Brazil, many alternatives have been tried to improve the formation of nurses’ aides and technicians, but little has been invested in teachers of this area. This study had as objective trace the socio- economic profile of teachers from nursing technical coursing from a municipality in the state of São Paulo, with the intention to meet these professionals who work as teachers in the preparation of health workers, in other words, who are these teachers, what is your graduation, your pedagogical training and their working relationships. It is a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative study. The data collection was conducted by a socioeconomic questionnaire applied to teachers. The study included 14 participants. Of this total, 57.2% are female, 42.8% are single, 50% are aged between 30 to 39 years, 37.5% are graduated for a period between 6 to 10 years, 71.4% have no teaching major, 52.7% have specialization in teacher formation, 64.3% maintains a contract hour/class with the institution where they teach, 71.4% have other job concomitant to teaching.