Perfil do egresso do curso de graduação em enfermagem de uma faculdade privada na região norte do ceará

Abstract

The changes that occurred in undergraduate nursing have accompanied the global context of transformation of education referrals and health policies, pointing to the need to reorient the training of nurses. In this perspective, according to the new National Curriculum Guidelines (NDC), nurses must have a generalist, humanistic, critical and reflexive education profile based on scientific and intellectual rigor and based on ethical principles. In this sense, egress represents the product of universities and its resourcefulness in the labor market is one of the most important parameters of the quality of education. The research has the general objective to analyze the professional development of the graduates of the INTA nursing course, and as specific objectives: to describe the profile of the graduates; Tracing the insertion in the labor market of graduates; Verifying the professional development of graduates; Identify the weaknesses and potentialities found for insertion in the labor market; Satisfaction and professional dissatisfaction. The method of choice was descriptive and exploratory with a quantitative approach. The research was carried out in the nursing course of the INTA Faculties in Sobral-CE. The study population involved 460 graduates of the INTA nursing course from 2012 to 2015, of whom 163 (35%) participated. In the data collection, an online questionnaire was used from the Google Drive platform. The data was processed in Microsoft Excel v2016 program worksheet, and then analyzed in IBM SPSS v23 Software, using descriptive statistics techniques. Most of the participants were women (76.7%), aged between 22 and 28 years (50%), single women (54%) and residents of the Sertão Sobral region (64.4%). The graduates had an efficient academic trajectory, 62.5% completed the course in up to 5 years, 95% completed or are pursuing postgraduate courses. The insertion of graduates in the labor market was very positive, 87% are working in nursing and 86% started working within 6 months after graduation. The majority of the graduates were satisfied with the 81% course and with the profession 70%. The research provided, beyond the knowledge of the egress profile, a maturation on the follow-up process of these alumni. The obtained results apply to the participant group, which did not reach enough number to be representative of the universe searched. Nevertheless, the results obtained are relevant, important and represent a first step in the preparation of new research, improving the techniques and broadening the objectives.