HIGHER EDUCATION IN HEALTH: contemporary perspectives for the field of nursing

Abstract

Currently, the undergraduate nursing course follows the National Curricular Guidelines of the Undergraduate Nursing Course implemented by resolution 3/2001 of the National Education Council, which triggered a new movement of restructuration of curricula. The focus is the formation of a new professional profile that builds its practices in detriment to the health-disease process, population reality and SUS assumptions. In this perspective the objective of the present work was to describe the current perspectives for higher education in nursing according to the current literature. It is a bibliographical research with descriptive nature, developed from an already elaborated material. The identification and location of the selected material was done in the Virtual Health Library (VHL) using the Descriptors in Health Sciences (DECs): "Higher Education" AND "Health" AND "Nursing". The research resulted in 533 publications from 1986 to 2018, of which 21 scientific articles were selected for the construction of the theoretical synthesis that resulted in two thematic categories, being: 1) The challenges of teaching in nursing and 2) The Importance of the link between teacher and students as an exchange of knowledge. The articulation of teaching and the restructuring of new learning methods transform simple students into reflective professionals able to face the adversities that they may find in doing the work. And teachers, in turn, adapting to the revolutionary methods of teaching and expanding the possibilities of teaching and learning can provide a more complete and successful training for undergraduates.