Representações Sociais sobre a Enfermagem Escolar na Educação Profissional e Tecnológica - EPT

Abstract

Nursing professionals play an important role in Professional and Technological Education by contributing to citizen education, which includes health education. In order to make the school an environment conducive to health promotion, it is essential to understand the conceptions, perceptions, beliefs, senses and meanings developed by the school community in relation to the services and experiences in which they participate. In this sense, the general objective of this research is to analyze the social representations elaborated by the school community about the work of nursing professionals in Professional and Technological Education. This study is based on Serge Moscovici's Theory of Social Representations (TSR) and the conceptual foundations of professional education. Students from the integrated high school, teachers, technical-administrative staff and managers from the Instituto Federal do Maranhão (IFMA) took part in the research. The data was produced in two stages, firstly in an online form using the Free Association technique, with prototypical analysis using the openEvoc software; and then by focus groups with each population studied, where the data was treated according to thematic analysis. This research uncovered social representations about school nursing in the professional education that circulate between the welcoming profile, the educational role and the biomedical and assistance model of care. It also revealed problems, uncertainties and challenges that need to be surpassed. The conclusion is that School Nursing in Professional and Technological Education needs to be better defined and understood by the school community in order to achieve transformative action in line with the conceptions of integral human formation.