Brazilian Sign Language teaching in undergraduate nursing courses

• Autor(a) principal: Costa,Leonardo Silva da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Pereira,Lúcia Cristina da Silva, Sá,Guilherme Guarino de Moura, Silva,Otávio Washington Lima, Barros,Lívia Moreira, Caetano,Joselany Áfio, Galindo Neto,Nelson Miguel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672021001200213
• topic: Education, Nursing; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Education, Higher; Sign Language; Curriculum

ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the Brazilian Sign Language teaching in undergraduate nursing courses. Method: a cross-sectional study, carried out on the curriculum matrices of 553 higher education nursing courses. Data collection took place through access to the websites of the Ministry of Education and educational institutions. Results: the nursing courses that offered Libras were located predominantly in the Southeast (36%), coming from private institutions (87.2%). Most Libras courses (82%) were offered on a mandatory basis in the second half of the course (46.7%). The semester in which the offer was most frequent was the eighth (15.9%). There was an association (p <0.001) between the offer of course and the variable “public or private category”. Conclusions: there was a predominance of Libras course in private institutions, in the Southeast region, with a 40-hour workload, offered in the second half of the course.