Representações sociais de enfermeiro supervisor elaboradas por estudantes de enfermagem

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Ana
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Frade, Maria, Marques, Maria Céu, Bule, Maria José, Lopes, Manuel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/29719
• topic: Representações sociais; Estudantes; Características; Enfermeiro supervisor

Resumo: Supervision and learning must be guided and accompanied by expert nurses in the clinical area. The nurse supervisor is required, in addition to clinical skills, ability to discuss, to question and to reflect with the student (Ketola, 2009). Objectives: Identify the social representations (SR) of the clinical nurse supervisor characteristics, built by students. Analyze the relationship between the components of SR nursing clinical supervisor in prospective students. Methodology: Exploratory study, the sample consisted of 74 students of 4th year, 1st cycle of Nursing. Data collection was conducted through a questionnaire. We met the ethical and legal procedures. The data were categorized using the Microsoft Office Word  and processed in software Evoc and SIMI. Results: There was a predominance of female respondents, with a mean age of 24.6 years. Of the 359 words evoked, 47 is ascertained different. The SR nursing clinical supervisor have the following structure: the more consensual elements - core - were accessible, competence, knowledge, available, empathy, experience, honesty and impartiality. The elements less consensus second-periphery - were: friend, collaborator, friendly, direct and commitment. The similarity analysis to prove the centrality of the elements available, knowledge and empathy and showed that there is a strong relationship between the elements available, friendly and a moderate relationship between the majority of the remaining elements with centrality. Conclusion: The nursing supervisor RS, developed by students, are structured skills of professional experience, supported by knowledge, and skills related to the personal nature of the nurse. Thus, the nurse supervisor, in the minds of students, must have experience and knowledge should be accessible, comprehensive, available, empathetic, honest and impartial. Clinical experiences are conditioned by the relationship between supervisor and student nurses (Cunha et al, 2010; Pearson, 2009).