Entendimento dos discentes sobre o ensino da liderança na graduação em enfermagem

Abstract

The accelerated and successive changes on the nursing instruction have been demanding more abilities and skills from nurses, as the exercise of leadership. Thereby, the present study has the objective to know the student understanding about the teaching of leadership on nursing degree school. This is a research of qualitative and descriptive approach, where 20 students from the nursing school of Universidade Federal de Pelotas participated. The information was obtained during August to October of 2015. To the data collect semi-structured interviews were realized. The data were treated by the Thematic Analysis of Minayo (2010). The result pointed that students consider the leadership as an inherent form of the nurse work, concluding that it is up to the teachers facilitate the development of that professional skill. On the instruction of nursing graduation, also emerge personal characteristics that define the leader-nurse, as: the responsibility, the commitment, the motivation and the cheer. The referred strategies on the teaching of leadership on nursing graduation were the autonomy and dialogue, which are stimulated by teachers so that students may develop their abilities and skills to exercise leadership and improve the perception of teaching and learning. The students understand the leadership as a program content that must be mentioned since the initials semesters to a good development. About the potential, students mentioned that in the new curriculum the teaching of leadership enable its insertion gradually over the semesters. About the fragility, points that the instruction still is linked to technicality, and difficult to insert the leadership on practical experiences to formation of a leader-nurse.