The graduates of nursing and the working world: study at an institution of public higher education in the State of São Paulo

• Grant number: 12/05925-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: May 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Public Health Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Silvana Martins Mishima
• Grantee: Silvana Martins Mishima
• Host Institution: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (EERP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Ana Maria Laus ; Andrea Bernardes ; Carmen Silvia Gabriel ; Lucieli Dias Pedreschi Chaves ; Marta Cristiane Alves Pereira ; Silvia Helena Henriques ; Silvia Matumoto

Abstract

The National Curriculum Guidelines predict the formation of general nurses, with technical, political, ethical and human competence to act in practice in different fields. This fact increases the responsibility and commitment of the institutions of higher learning in training professionals to meet the demands of the labor market and Brazilian Health System, as well as reinforce the need to develop follow-up studies of graduates contributing to know the reality of these professionals, their work context and other relevant changes in the workplace. This study aims to characterize the profile of nurse's graduate from a university in the state of São Paulo, analyzing through the development of a methodology for graduates tracking, the socio-demographic characteristics and training, as well as their insertion in the world work. This is a descriptive study, cross sectional quantitative approach. The study sample will be nursing graduates in the Course of Bachelor of Nursing from 2000 to 2010. The research will be presented via e-mail contact and created exclusively for expressions of interest from licensed nurses in the institution of study. For those who consent to participate in the research will be presented with the website created specifically for access to the virtual instrument of data collection. After the data should be organized into specific software, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, SPSS, and analysis should be done with descriptive statistics. Analyze the professional profile of graduates and follow their movement in the labor market will allow the provision of assessment tools to the education centers on the impact of training in health services and establish strategies for better qualification of the training process, contributing to provision of nursing care quality. (AU)