The challenge of following the road of ethics from an interinstitucional point of view: an experience of education in nursing

Abstract

Starting with the conducting of an inter-institutional study combining theoretical knowledge and inter-personal relationships between the faculty and the student body at the universities in the city of Fortaleza, the authors have developed integrated teaching from a criticalreflexive point of view, in an attempt to stimulate commitment and the responsibility within the student body. The objectives of this work are to analyze the repercussion of combined didactic-pedagogic activities for the student body, during which inter-disciplinary training of the students was developed based on participative teaching, and to base the teaching of ethics on the integration of faculty and the student body, beginning with the joint planning of didactic-pedagogic activities. This is an exploratory-descriptive type study conducted with students at two universities, one public and one private, in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil. The study population consisted of students of the Ethics in Nursing discipline who participated in the seminars between 1995 and 2001. The simple random sample consisted of 74 students, 34 from 1995 and 40 from 1999. The data were processed and classified by similarity. In the comments, a critical vision of the student body was identified in relation to the difficulty of integration between the local universities due to discriminatory aspects. However, a feeling of interest was glimpsed in relation to integration, as well as a critical reflection of nursing through discussions on the proposed themes.