Abstract

FELIX AMEZQUITA, María Araceli; GARAY NUNEZ, Jesús Roberto  and  SANTOS QUINTERO, María Isabel. The teaching / learning of community nursing in undergraduates. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.14, pp.248-264. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v7i14.283.

The present investigation is a qualitative descriptive study, objectives: 1. Describe and analyze the teaching / learning of community nursing in nursing undergraduate students of the School of Nursing in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. 2. Analyze the teaching/learning in the educational process. The theoretical approach was based on Pedro Demo, Diaz Barriga, Vera Waldow y Vilma de Carvalho. Teacher and students responded a semi-structured interview. The Ethics principles and scientific criteria were respected. The thematic content analysis was used, emerging three thematic categories: 1. The individual’s teaching / learning of community nursing. 2. The collective / group teaching / learning of community nursing. 3. Supplemented in practice the individual teaching / learning with the collective/group of community nursing.

Conclusions: In the current conditions characterized by technological and scientific changes, the individual teaching / learning is important but not sufficient mainly at the community level since it is a space for socialization and interdisciplinary work. Interaction with the "others", teacher and students together, which facilitates learning both individually and collectively, in addition to taking, practice in real scenarios as spaces for reflection-action, for the development of caring processes.

Keywords : teaching; learning and nursing praxis.