Permanent education: perception of nursing in the light of complex thought

Abstract

Objective: To understand how the nursing team perceives and experiences Permanent Education in Health in a hospital environment, in the light of complex thought. Methods: Qualitative study based on complex thought as theoretical framework and in Grounded Theory as methodological framework. Nurses and Nursing Technicians from a teaching hospital in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul participated in the study and were organized into three sample groups. Data were collected from August/2018 to September/2019, through individual interviews. Results: A prospective movement of personal and collective search and an intense process of (re)construction of knowledge and professional practices were identified. In this dynamic, both the intervention approaches and the internal and external environmental conditions were of fundamental importance for understanding and (re) signifying learning as an endless educational process. Conclusion: Permanent Education in Health for the nursing team goes far beyond a policy or schedule of periodic activities. Therefore, each service/institution should consider the uniqueness and multidimensionality of its actors to make them protagonists in the process of (re)signification of continuous and permanent learning.