Abstract

FONSECA, João Paulo Soares  and  FERNANDES, Carla Helena. The nurse teacher in higher education: performance and professional training. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.45, pp.43-58. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v22i45.1027.

The research was developed with nurses who work as teachers in higher education institutions located in the south of Minas Gerais. It aimed to investigate the education of these teachers (specific and pedagogical) establishing possible relationships with the teaching performance. The investigation consisted of questionnaires, sent to all teachers who work in the region. Forty-one teachers answered the questionnaires. It was verified that the entrance in the teaching career occurred, in many cases, simultaneously to the beginning of the nursing action; Many teachers have pedagogical training and consider it important for teaching; The participants of the research also said that teaching has been constituted in the relation with the professional experience in contexts of Health; The professionals also talked about the history and the trajectory, the reflections on education and the professional performance.

Keywords : teaching; nursing; teacher training.

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