[Nursing education: building up the integrality of care]

Abstract

In this study it was aimed to understand the nursing teaching towards the integrality of healthcare. A qualitative approach study with data obtained from interviews with members of the teaching staff, student nurses and nurses of services. The transcribed interviews were submitted to discourse analysis. Intentionalities shown by the research participants regarding the professional training from the perspective of the integrality of healthcare in a movement of overcoming the flexnerian paradigm towards a possibility of critical and reflective education were seen. It was concluded that the nursing training points at reflections on the changing movement on the pedagogical practices and healthcare as fundamental strategy in order to build the integrality of healthcare.