Abstract

OCAMPO-RIVERA, Diana Carolina  and  ARANGO-ROJAS, María Eugenia. Health education: "Abstract concept, intangible practice". Univ. Salud [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1, pp.24-33. ISSN 0124-7107.

Objective: To comprehend the conceptions and practices that nursing students have on health education during their undergraduate career. Materials and methods: A qualitative, ethnographic focused study was made on undergraduate students. Results: The practices of health education in the training of nurses, from the perspective of students, are configured from the learning experiences of health care where the conceptions and meanings about health and education are reproduced from traditional views until alternative ones. These multiplicity of views generate tensions and contradictions between the discourse and the practice of health education of EPS because it is hard to identify a clear conceptual and pedagogical stance facing this category which sharpens when in the curriculum, students do not find the substratum that cements the fortification of the educator role in the formative process of the career. Conclusions: The understanding of the particularities of the education process of nurse training, specifically of the health education training, requires the development of pedagogical processes that transcend technical training of the nurse, which is centered on the content and procedure, and rethink current teaching toward a teaching that promotes reflective processes to form health educators not just professionals.

Keywords : Students, nursing; education, nursing; health knowledge, attitudes, practice.

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