Community of teaching-assistance practice: analysis of mutual commitment, common objective and shared repertoire

Abstract

The research has the goal to analyze the process of building mutual commitment, a common objective and a shared repertoire of teaching and care practice communities in Primary Health Care. Using a method of action research with the participation of nurse supervisors of students and nurse teachers who work in primary health care in a municipality in southern Brazil. Data collection occurred in five focus groups. The data were analyzed from the content analysis of Bardin, using the data analysis software AtlasTi8. From the method used, it was possible to obtain results that are presented in three categories: Establishing mutual commitment to the community of teaching care practice in Primary Health Care; Carrying out the joint venture for a community of teaching assistential practice in Primary Health Care; Developing a shared repertoire for the community of teaching practice in primary health care. Finally, it took into account that negotiation of meaning about the practice was based on different perspectives on the same object, reaching mutual commitment; the common objective, negotiated in the light of policies, laws, ordinances that reinforce the way work should be carried out in primary health care, turned to expanded clinic, structured based on the needs of the territory; the materials that guide the teaching activities, such as the curriculum, the pedagogical political projects, the terms of the internship were considered elements of the shared repertoire.