Educação interprofissional na formação em saúde do curso de graduação em enfermagem

Abstract

Objective: in general, the study proposed to know, within the scope of the Pedagogical Projects of the undergraduate nursing course of public universities, contents that address Interprofessional Education, in relation to the specific character, the study sought to characterize the undergraduate courses in of public federal, state and municipal universities, regarding the regional distribution and the curricular proposal in relation to Interprofessional Education and also to analyze the Curricular Pedagogical Projects of the undergraduate nursing course and the factors/aspects related to the offer of Interprofessional Education. Method: this is an observational, cross­-sectional study that carried out a survey based on documentary sources (Curricular Pedagogical Projects). The data source was the Ministry of Education's electronic platform and took place during the period of March and April 2022 from a data collection instrument, the eligibility of the institutions that would be part of the scope of the research were undergraduate nursing courses, in a baccalaureate degree, in the face-­to-­face modality, that was in activity and with the Curricular Pedagogical Projects available at the electronic address. In relation to the analysis, non-­parametric tests were used for categorical and normality variables to choose the test of quantitative variables, and to verify if there was a difference in the proportion, the chi­-square tests and the G test were used. Results: they were part of the results 88 Higher Education Institutions Out of the 140 institutions found in the Ministry of Education database, of this sample, 47 (53.4%) were from federal public institutions, 34 (38.6%) from state public institutions and 7 (8%) of municipal institutions. Of this total, only 13 presented Interprofessional Education based on their Pedagogical and Curricular Projects, being divided, in Brazil, 5 Institutions (38.4%) in the northeast region and 2 Institutions (15.4%) in each of the other regions and the administrative category of this group were presented as follows, 7 Institutions (53.8%) were federal public and 6 Institutions (46.2%) were state public. On the other hand, regarding the administrative aspects/concepts of the course and the offer of EIP, only the type of course offer was related to the offer of EIP, with statistical significance (p=0.02), on the other hand, the proportion of EIP offered was higher among the offer of annual courses (28.1%) when compared to the semester (7.1%). Conclusion: implementing Interprofessional Education in national education and health policies is an essential process for the theoretical and methodological structure of the curricula and, consequently, for the curricular projects of undergraduate courses in health and nursing, since the training of these professionals must ensure a better health care.