Nurse knowledge and understanding for teaching and management in primary health care: a descriptive/exploratory study

Online braz. j. nurs. (Online); 12 (suplementar), 2013
Publication year: 2013

This is dissertation project in progress for a Masters Course in Health Care Teaching at Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

Aims:

To identify the nursing knowledge and skills that need to be developed for management and preceptorship in a primary health care system; to analyze and discuss the implications for pedagogical practice for nursing preceptors during their training; to describe the tasks carried out by nurses while managing and preceptorship students in a preceptors health care unit; and to develop educational technology for permanent pedagogical nursing training.

Method:

qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research to take place at a primary health care unit in the municipality of Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro State. The research subjects will be nurse preceptors. The data will be gathered from August to December 2013, by means of semi-structured interviews and a thematic analysis of the content...