COMPREHENSIVENESS AND NURSING EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN´S AND TEENAGER´S CARE

Abstract

Integrality is a key principle in health care education. We aimed at investigating the relationship established between child and teenage healthcare training courses and our Public Health system, in terms of the integrality principle. This is an explanatory and qualitative research, containing documental data which include interviews with child and teenage health professors. Integrality stood out in their speech, which further revealed just how this principle has been embodied as a flagship in nursing programs. And this enables not only actions of promotion, protection and treatment in all assistance levels, but also brings out general education and family-oriented care as a part of the integrality dimension in their training. Besides, with the new curriculum directives teacher and nursing schools have driven their attitudes in a way as to add integrality to the programs. And it falls to us to inquire whether the teachers' attitudes have actually echoed in real integrating practices at institutions and health service facilities.